RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Exception on arrow keys

["Neil Howe" <NeilH@xxxxxxxx>]

Charles would be using an older version (rev 1375) because I noticed
earlier that the build server hadn't built for a couple of days. Problem
fixed now so a new build should appear shortly.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Gerry Iles
> Sent: 29 June 2006 19:34
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Exception on arrow keys
> 
> A release build built on my machine does not exhibit this problem.
Are
> you sure you installed a recent enough version?  The fix I checked in
> for this was r1382..
> 
> Gerry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Gerry Iles
> Sent: 29 June 2006 18:35
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Exception on arrow keys
> 
> Also, that xml error report has no symbols in...  I thought someone
> fixed the autopackage building to not strip it...
> 
> Gerry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Alex Bligh
> Sent: 29 June 2006 18:30
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Alex Bligh
> Subject: Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Exception on arrow keys
> 
> Charles,
> 
> Charles Moir wrote:
> > Is this xml error report what you want?
> >
> > If I attempt a recover, everything seems ok with LX afterwards (I
wish
> I
> > had this feature on Xara Xtreme), except that if I make it generate
> the
> > error again I get no message or error report at all the 2nd time -
the
> 
> > program just vanishes under me. Is that normal?
> 
> Well recovery isn't guaranteed to work perfectly (I do something
pretty
> disgusting to get the message loop running again) but in the general
> case no it shouldn't disappear completely. I'll have a look at that
> when I get a chance (I expect my reentrancy guard is a bit overzealous
> as it quits completely rather than fill up the stack with error
boxes).
> 
> To be fair, I haven't had much of a problem with Xtreme recovering
from
> this sort of thing either. I think it depends more on what causes
> the error (a one of pointer dereference vs. some corrupted data
> structure) than on the recovery code.
> 
> Alex