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Notes:The American Girls Dress Designer
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This page contains notes for the game The American Girls Dress Designer.
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On Windows NT-based operating systems, the game crashes upon clicking any button that invokes a popup window, namely "Print", "Select Dress" or "Quit". As it turns out, it was due to how the developers used the "CreateWindowExA" API call, using 0x1 or 1 as the hMenu handle even if it doesn't apparently exist within the EXE:
CreateWindowExA(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, "AfxFrameOrView42s", "SelDrsLd", WS_CLIPCHILDREN, 463, 233, 514, 433, 0x000000000022095C, 0x1, //this hMenu value is what's causing the game to fail 0x0000000000400000, NULL );
DOS-based Windows systems seem to treat these invalid values as a non-issue, yet on NT-based operating systems this is a cause for a crash. Changing 0x1 to NULL or 0 fixes the issue.
(Source: Blakegripling ph, see also this thread for details.)