[CF-Devel] [Fwd: Crossfire bugs ...]

[Andreas Vogl]

Mark Wedel wrote:

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      > 2. Client crash on 2nd window resize or on window unhide
     
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      > When I resize the client window, it crashes very often (about 95% of
     
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      > resize tries).
     
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      > It also crashes when I first put another window in front of the client
     
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      > after that the client window back to front (or the other window to the
     
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      > back).
     
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      > Again it's a SIGSEGV.
     
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      Another person has reported this, yet it works OK on my system.  So there
     
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      something out there, and I think te other user was also using Suse.  So it
     
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      might be a bug there, or it could be with options the client is run with -
     
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      don't know.
     
     
That other person was me. I strongly suspect the bug is OS-related.
I had this bug on every version of SuSE linux I ever had installed on my
local PC. I believe the worst part about this bug is the "bad impression"
you get from the client.

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      > 6. Crossedit crashes when closing info window
     
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      > This bug is not so important to me since I don't use crossedit to create
     
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      > maps, I write my own perl scripts or Java programs to do that. (I will
     
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      > release them as soon as they are okay to be used by others. If you want
     
     to
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      > have a look at them, just drop me a line.)
     
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      Any map tools you contribute to the probject would be useful.  Fact is,
     
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      crossedit is not all the heavily maintained - I don't think many of the
     
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      current developers know it that well, and most new developers probably
     
     don't
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      have the Xt toolkit high on their list of things to learn.
     
     
This bug is really bad and severe. It seems to be OS-related as well. I have
checked this one with debugger and found out that the core dump happens in
one
of the Xaw graphic library routines (SuSE linux 7.0).
Together with the broken pick-arch scrollbar in the main window, crossedit
is currently in a state close to "unusable", for my system. And it's not
like SuSE systems would be rare... =/

Best I could manage was disabling the buttons on the info windows.
Once opened, I must leave them open till I quit CE.
Sorry, I know it doesn't help much to complain - Just in hope that I might
inspire somebody to write a new editor. =]


Andreas V.