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Technical Q&A TB22
Drag Manager & the -600 (procNotFound) Error
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Q
Sometimes my application's calls to the Drag Manager fail with a -600
(procNotFound) error. This is not one of the errors listed for these
calls. What's up?
A
There are three known common causes of this error:
- The use of high-level debuggers. Since Drag Manager interacts
heavily with Process Manager, as does the typical high-level debugger,
conflicts inevitably develop. There's no work-around for this problem
except to ask your debugger vendor to improve its behavior when debugging
Drag Manager code. If your code is encountering such a problem, it should
run fine when the debugger is not involved.
- Passing TrackDrag an EventRecord whose 'where' field is
expressed in local coordinates. (This can also result in a crash, but
sometimes simply results in a -600 error.) Such 'where' fields often
point outside the window in which the drag originates.
- Attempting to use the Drag Manager with Text Services Manager
windows when the 'gestaltDragMgrFloatingWind' bit is not defined in the
response to the 'gestaltDragMgrAttr' Gestalt selector. The value of this
bit denotes whether a Drag Manager bug with TSM windows is fixed on the
system under which your app is running.
In the second and third cases, Drag Manager has a hard time associating
the source window with a process. Some operations can succeed even
without a clear owning process, so Drag Manager limps along as best it
can for a while in the hopes that it won't be asked to do anything which
requires a ProcessSerialNumber. When it is, the operation fails.
[Aug 21 1996]
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