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[deiruch]

Hi Ian

First of all thanks again for BASS. Works fine in 99.999% of the cases for our game (http://gewaltig.net). Sadly, every now and then initialization fails, but less than one in 10'000 starts. The error code returned is always BASS_ERROR_UNKNOWN - this is probably caused because I pass no window handle (see http://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=2693.0 for example). I do this because I'm using Java and it's quite difficult to get the handle of the window.

Can't you create a hidden window automatically when no window handle is passed to BASS_Init? That would help tremendously.

Cheers,
Simon

[Ian @ un4seen]

It wouldn't necessarily be a matter of simply creating a hidden window. The thread would also need to have a message queue and a processing loop, to process the window's messages. So BASS would probably need to handle that stuff too if it created a hidden window, as it can't be sure that the user's code will. I'll see if something can be arranged.

[deiruch]

I understand. Thanks for looking into this.

By the way, according to Alan Ludwig, it's also acceptable to just pass the desktop window. See here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.audio/a7QhlgNFBpg/w8lTd8_NRSEJ

via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6714111/how-to-provide-a-hwnd-to-directsound-setcooperativelevel-in-a-console-program

[Ian @ un4seen]

Interesting. Here's an update to try, in which BASS_Init will use the desktop window rather than the foreground window when a window handle isn't provided...

   www.un4seen.com/stuff/bass.dll

It seems to be fine, but let me know if you find different

[deiruch]

I'll distribute the next version with this change and will keep you updated on whether this works as intended. Note that it'll take some weeks. Thanks again!

[deiruch]

I'm pretty sure that did the trick. Haven't got a single crash report so far with the new version.

Thanks a bunch.

[Ian @ un4seen]

That's good to hear. If it continues to look fine, the modification will be left in for the next BASS release.