Why does my application crash when I press the Back hardware key?

By Alexander Shargin, May 29, 2002.

Question

I've created a very simple application. But I noticed that it crashes when I press the Back hardware key. This behaviour is detected only when the application is running under debugger. I don't handle the Back key in my application. How can I fix this?

Answer

It seems to be a bug in the debugger. It appears if you use long window class names in your application (more than 25 characters). Use shorter class names to avoid this problem.

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