RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Latest build test.

["Neil Howe" <NeilH@xxxxxxxx>]

> > --On 07 May 2006 15:32 +0100 Charles Moir <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm I can't find the bugzilla report which is concerning as I know
> > this
> > > has been detailed more than once.  Oh well I just found a machine
and
> > > tried. This is 100% repeatable and very easy to reproduce. Load
the
> > > first example design, the corvette, then click the new document
icon
> > and
> > > draw a rectangle. Close this document. Bang. Perhaps doesn't
happen on
> > > debug builds, but does on retail binary.
> >
> > OK should be simple enough to find, but it doesn't happen here on
the
> > debug build, or on the retail build v.924 that I happen to have
> > lying around. How are you closing the document? File->Close?
> >
> > [Gerry] I did some work on this problem about a month ago and I
found
> > that the crashes happen when you have more than one document open
and
> > you close the left most one (tab-wise).  This happens because of a
bug
> > in wxGTK with view activation and I submitted a patch to wx that
fixes
> > it.  There was also a small change I made to our code that ensures
that
> > our concept of selected document and view gets cleared when the
selected
> > view is deactivated but I left this commented out.  I've now put
this
> > back in but there is another issue in the new focus handling code.
I
> > have fixed this one too and will check it in as soon as I've done an
> > up-to-date build...
> 
> The original close bug in Bugzilla was closed after Gerry's changes
> because it was no longer reproducible. The crashes became much less
> frequent and weren't reproducible for me. However I can now reproduce
the
> crash following the steps from Charles above, in the release build.
We'll
> see if Gerry's change today fixes that.
> 

Gerry's change did fix the crash, but seemed to introduce rendering
problems on load. So the change has been removed for now and I'll log
this as described above.

Neil