Re: Should SQL Compact work in headless systems?

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I guess you could call it headless. The in-between configurations are
less-commonly used, so, as I see it, more-likely to have hidden issues than
the minimal kernel configuration or the full input, window manager, GWES,
GDI configuration.

Just from reading the build files, it does not appear that GWES_TIMER is set
for minimal GWES. You could try rebuilding your OS with
__SYSGEN_GWE_TIMER=1 set in your environment/platform configuration and see
if that fixes the problem. It seems that this SYSGEN value would enable
SetTimer and KillTimer for you.

Paul T.

"Ted Toal, Sierra Video Systems"
<TedToalSierraVideoSystems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I thought Minimal GWES was the same as headless, but I guess not. However,
my system has had and still has minimal GWES in it. I've never had this
error before, it only appeared after adding SQL Compact. As far as I
know, I
have no dummy display driver (I see nothing like that in the BSP catalog
items). Does inclusion of minimal GWES not automatically provide a
SetTimer
and KillTimer?


"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:

According to dependencies in Platform Builder 5.0 for SQL Compact, you
need
COM, Memory Mapped Files, Point-to-Point Message Queue, Minimal GWES
(this
is the headless question answer--yes, you need UI support), PNP
Notifications, Minimal Power Management, Serial Port Support, Standard
String Functions, and String Safe Utility Functions, among a few others
that
are more-common, like Device Manager. Note that having GWES doesn't
necessarily mean that the device has to have a real display; GWES plus a
dummy display driver would be fine, as you said, so that the timer calls
are
present.

Paul T.

"Ted Toal, Sierra Video Systems"
<TedToalSierraVideoSystems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Should SQL Compact work in headless systems? sqlceca35.dll appears to
call
SetTimer and KillTimer, which would imply the answer is NO.






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