We have had reports of StretchBlt causing the device to freeze on Toshiba
E355 (PPC 2002).

Is that a known issue ?

Re: StretchBlt broken on Toshiba E355 (PPC 2002) by r_z_aret

r_z_aret
Wed Jan 21 09:10:47 CST 2004

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:07:39 -0800, "The PocketTV Team"
<do-not-reply-by-email@pockettv.com> wrote:

>We have had reports of StretchBlt causing the device to freeze on Toshiba
>E355 (PPC 2002).
>
>Is that a known issue ?

I hope not, because I use StretchBlt. But only some of my users use
the related functions, and I don't think any of my users use Toshiba
E355. I know my code (including StretchBlt) works on at least some
Pocket PCs. I'm pretty sure such specific hardware dependencies are
rare. I've more often discovered real bugs in _my_ code that showed
symptoms on only one platform.
>
>

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Re: StretchBlt broken on Toshiba E355 (PPC 2002) by The

The
Wed Jan 21 16:40:51 CST 2004

In the past, we have seen several device-specific bugs like that, caused by
bugs in the graphic driver dll. For example, StretchBlt was broken on some
Casio devices. The problem got fix by a firmware upgrade from the
manufacturer.

In the case of E355, we are not sure that this is the problem, but we
suspect it might be.

PocketTV is a very well tested piece of software (about 1 million copies
installed, 1200 more registered every day). So when a problem appears only
on a new device, this is suspicious.


<r_z_aret@pen_fact.com> wrote in message
news:400e9209.7197439@nntp.theworld.com...
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:07:39 -0800, "The PocketTV Team"
> <do-not-reply-by-email@pockettv.com> wrote:
>
> >We have had reports of StretchBlt causing the device to freeze on Toshiba
> >E355 (PPC 2002).
> >
> >Is that a known issue ?
>
> I hope not, because I use StretchBlt. But only some of my users use
> the related functions, and I don't think any of my users use Toshiba
> E355. I know my code (including StretchBlt) works on at least some
> Pocket PCs. I'm pretty sure such specific hardware dependencies are
> rare. I've more often discovered real bugs in _my_ code that showed
> symptoms on only one platform.