Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

3402.0. "PrintScreen hangs" by FRSCS::ERLEMANN (Bedman strikes back) Thu Sep 27 1990 06:56

    Hi,
    
    this is also an ancient problem concerning the printscreen w/o SessMgr
    story.
    
    I have a clever customer who thought about "It must be possible to
    print screen without the caption of the Session Manager". Further he
    thought, "there is a small timelap between releasing the OK button as a
    confirmation of the destination file name and the mutation of the
    mousebutton from arrow to plus-sign. This time I use to iconize the
    Session Manager so it won't disturb me anymore".
    
    I tried that and was astonished that this worked great! There were so
    many questions about that before in this conference and the solution is
    so easy! (Don't hope that this has been published here before, but the
    conference is getting too big now...)
    
    But the customer has a big problem in doing that. The mouse pointer
    stays in watch state and when observing the system he sees that the
    main process has 99% of CPU and stays so. The only solution for him is
    to start DECw again. He has VMS V5.3-1 on a V3100. I have tried it
    under V5.4 and V5.3 on V2000's -> worked fine!
    
    Could it be that the 3100 is too fast for that? Or is this way totally
    unsupported?
    
    Thanks for any reply.
    
    	Armin

    Yes, there is a race condition if you happen to generate events right
    as printscreen starts up.  This is clearly a bug, and it is being
    looked into.