Error 11009: Drawing error during E-Run

[Paul Gr]

I have only positive experiences with the WinKey killer utility. Very simple 
to use and very effective. Just put a shortcut to the program in the 
startmenu->programs->startup folder to automatically active the utility at 
startup.

See also:
http://www.psy.vu.nl/download/menu/
http://pcwin.com/software/review.asp?ProgramID=5020


best,
paul


>From: "Sudevan, Padmanabhan" <psudevan at uwsp.edu>
>To: "E-Prime" <eprime at mail.talkbank.org>
>Subject: Error 11009: Drawing error during E-Run
>Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:19:04 -0600
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>This is a note on a problem we had in my lab regarding an error message
>that we encountered: Error 11009: A drawing error, with the code
>0x887601c2.
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>We were having E-Run crash in the middle of an experiment occasionally
>and this was the error that showed up. Initially, PST thought this might
>be due to video card problems or even network routines polling the lab
>machines and using video card resources. However, I tried a simpler
>approach and tried to make the intermittent error replicable by running
>myself in the experiment and pressing keys and key combinations at
>random on each trial and in between trials. Sure enough, the drawing
>error came up when I hit either of the Windows keys on each side of the
>space bar, next to the ALT keys ( these are Dell Optiplex GX 280
>machines bought for the lab last summer ). The error could be elicited
>reliably and consistently on each of the four machines in the lab. So my
>subjects were accidentally hitting the Windows key, when they were
>trying to hit the keys defined as response keys ( N and M ).
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>PST knew about this problem and pointed me in the direction of an
>E-Prime Support Note:
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>                                     INFO: How to avoid accidental
>pressing of special keys (Windows Key, Ctrl+E...
><http://www.pstnet.com/e-prime/support/kb.asp?TopicID=1371> .
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>The third-party routine that will block the Windows keys is called
>WinKeyKill. Has anyone on this list actually used this routine? I'd like
>to know how well it works.
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>Cheers,
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>Sudevan
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>P Sudevan
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>Professor and Chair
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>Department of Psychology
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>University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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