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   1 wxWindows Buglist
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   7 BUG NUMBER:
   8 SHORT DESCRIPTION:
   9 DETAILS:
  10 WORKAROUND:
  11 wxWINDOWS VERSION:
  12 PLATFORM(S):
  13 DATE IDENTIFIED:
  14 IDENTIFIED BY:
  15 DATE FIXED:
  16 FIXED BY:
  17
  18 -------------------------START OF BUGLIST-------------------------
  19
  20 BUG NUMBER:             1
  21 SHORT DESCRIPTION:      Popup menu bug
  22 DETAILS:
  23 If a popup wxMenu is destroyed after its parent window has been
  24 destroyed, we get the message "Object XXX does not have windowed
  25 ancestor".
  26 Possible fix: call menu->DestroyMenu() before deleting the window,
  27 if the window knows about the menu that was last popped up (hard
  28 to know this with confidence).
  29 WORKAROUND:
  30 Delete the menu before deleting the window on which it
  31 was popped up.
  32 wxWINDOWS VERSION:      2.0.1
  33 PLATFORM(S):            wxMotif
  34 DATE IDENTIFIED:        ?/?/1998
  35 IDENTIFIED BY:          Julian Smart <julian.smart@btopenworld.com>
  36 DATE FIXED:
  37 FIXED BY:
  38
  39 BUG NUMBER:             2
  40 SHORT DESCRIPTION:      Misc. Motif bugs
  41 DETAILS:
  42 - In wxGrid, cell highlight is not drawn/erased properly.
  43
  44 - Setting the size of a hidden window may show that window.
  45
  46 - wxRadioBox sometimes doesn't show (e.g. in controls sample).
  47
  48 - Can't set the colours for the buttons in the file selector, for
  49   some reason.
  50
  51 - On SGI IRIX 6.4, XtDestroyWidget in ~wxWindow causes a crash in
  52   some cicumstances. This is being looked into. Meanwhile, a
  53   possible workaround is to remove the final XtDestroyWidget line in ~wxWindow
  54   (window.cpp). This will mean that child windows will only get
  55   destroyed when frames and dialogs are destroyed, so dynamic subwindow
  56   deletion may not work properly.
  57
  58 - There are reports that scrolling can cause crashes under Lesstif.
  59   This is probably a Lesstif bug.
  60 WORKAROUND:
  61 wxWINDOWS VERSION:      2.0.1
  62 PLATFORM(S):            wxMotif
  63 DATE IDENTIFIED:        ?/?/1999
  64 IDENTIFIED BY:          Julian Smart
  65 DATE FIXED:
  66 FIXED BY:
  67
  68 BUG NUMBER:             3
  69 SHORT DESCRIPTION:      Dialog Editor issues
  70 DETAILS:
  71 Dialog Editor could be more user-friendly. Controls are hard to
  72 size and position accurately. No way of changing tab order
  73 except by editing .wxr file.
  74 WORKAROUND:
  75 wxWINDOWS VERSION:      2.0.1
  76 PLATFORM(S):            All
  77 DATE IDENTIFIED:        ?/?/1998
  78 IDENTIFIED BY:          Julian Smart <julian.smart@btopenworld.com>
  79 DATE FIXED:
  80 FIXED BY:
  81
  82 BUG NUMBER:             4
  83 SHORT DESCRIPTION: Appending a menuitem with negative id causes menu not to be shown
  84 DETAILS: I haven't tested it throughly, though it happens when appending a submenu
  85 WORKAROUND: Add dummy id number even for menuitems which don't require them (submenus for example)
  86 wxWINDOWS VERSION: 2.1.11
  87 PLATFORMS: wxGTK
  88 DATE IDENTIFIED: 10/11/1999
  89 IDENTIFIED BY: Jonathan Brown <jbrown@sso.sytexinc.com>
  90
  91 BUG NUMBER:             5
  92 SHORT DESCRIPTION: no vertical space inside wxHTML
  93 DETAILS: We are working on making a demonstration of projects we do here
  94 using Python & wxWindows & HTML (wxPython/wxHTML thus). We 'd like to
  95 have the opportunity to specify vertical space, eg <br><br>, or <p><p>
  96 in HTML. These constructs currently do not work. I looked in the source
  97 code (nice job btw), but am not sure where to hack the solution. I
  98 am willing to discuss this in more detail.
  99 WORKAROUND: Create a transparent gif of 1x1 pixel and use width & height
 100 to fool the renderer
 101 wxWINDOWS VERSION: wxWindows 2.1.11
 102 PLATFORMS: Windows + Python 1.5
 103 DATE IDENTIFIED: 10/11/1999
 104 IDENTIFIED BY: A.T.Hofkamp
 105 DATE FIXED: 11/11/1999
 106 FIXED BY: Vaclav Slavik
 107
 108 BUG NUMBER: 6
 109 SHORT DESCRIPTION: wxGTK-2.1.11 fails to build under IRIX
 110 DETAILS: Seems we have a section that says, if we're not Sun, Linux, or
 111 FreeBSD, then there's something very wrong...
 112 c++ -c -MMD -D__WXGTK__ -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D_REENTRANT -D_IODBC_ -O2
 113 -I. -I./include -I./include
 114 -I./src/zlib -I./src/png -I./src/jpeg
 115 -I/home/rhh/software/gtk+-1.2.3/include
 116 -I/home/rhh/software/glib-1.2.3/lib/glib/include
 117 -I/home/rhh/software/glib-1.2.3/include -Wall
 118 -D"wxINSTALL_PREFIX=\"/home/rhh/software/wxGTK-2.1.11\"" -fPIC -o
 119 dialup.o ./src/unix/dialup.cpp ./src/unix/dialup.cpp: In method `int
 120 wxDialUpManagerImpl::CheckIfconfig()':
 121 ./src/unix/dialup.cpp:500: warning: ignoring pragma: warning
 122 ./src/unix/dialup.cpp:527: parse error before `;'
 123 ./src/unix/dialup.cpp:544: confused by earlier errors, bailing out gmake:
 124 *** [dialup.o] Error 1
 125 wxWINDOWS VERSION: 2.1.11
 126 PLATFORMS: wxGTK
 127 DATE IDENTIFIED: 16/11/1999
 128 IDENTIFIED BY: Randall Hopper
 129
 130 DATE+FIXED:
 131 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 11-15-99
 132 DETAILS: I am a new user.  I downloaded setup.exe and setup.wXX then ran the install program.  It prompted me for disk two which puzzled me.  There was no obvious solution.
 133 FIXED+BY:
 134 IDENTIFIED+BY: William Deans
 135 PLATFORMS: wxWindows
 136 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: misnamed setup.wXX files prevents install
 137 Submit: Submit
 138 WORKAROUND: The problem seems to be that the default download name for the setup.wXX files is not 'setup.wXX' but instead 'setup.wXX..wXX'  Every new user who installs could change these names... but why not simply change them on the server?  (I was using IE 5 under Windows 98)
 139 visitor_email_address: willdeans@mindspring.com
 140 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: Current version as of 11-15-99
 141
 142 DATE+FIXED:
 143 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 11-15-99
 144 DETAILS: to recreate:
 145   click "new dialog" several times
 146   view the properties of a dialog box
 147   DO NOT CLOSE THE PROPERTIES BOX
 148   click on another dialog in the list
 149   right click the new dialog and select view properties..... (THE PROPERTY BOX DOES NOT CHANGE EVEN THOUGH IT SHOULD!... BUT THIS IS NOT THE CRASH)
 150   to make the crash click the Name property in the properties dialog box -- the application crashes
 151 FIXED+BY:
 152 IDENTIFIED+BY: William Deans
 153 PLATFORMS: wxWindows
 154 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: dialog editor CRASHES
 155 Submit: Submit
 156 WORKAROUND: be sure and close the properties box every time before switching to a new dialog... this might be hard to remember as the properties box does not stay in front of the dialog editor........ as I feel that it should
 157 visitor_email_address: willdeans@mindspring.com
 158 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11 (Current version as of 11-15-99)
 159
 160 DATE+FIXED:
 161 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 11-15-99
 162 DETAILS: to recreate:
 163   click "Dialogs" folder to the left
 164   select delete from the menu
 165 FIXED+BY:
 166 IDENTIFIED+BY: William Deans
 167 PLATFORMS: wxWindows
 168 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: Dialog Editor CRASHES (again)
 169 Submit: Submit
 170 WORKAROUND:
 171 visitor_email_address: willdeans@mindspring.com
 172 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11 (Current version as of 11-15-99)
 173
 174 DATE+FIXED:
 175 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 11-15-99
 176 DETAILS: to recreate:
 177   go to properties (of any dialog)
 178   select id
 179   select ...
 180   hit cancel
 181   the property box hangs
 182 FIXED+BY:
 183 IDENTIFIED+BY: William Deans
 184 PLATFORMS: wxWindows
 185 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: Dialog Editor HANGS
 186 Submit: Submit
 187 WORKAROUND:
 188 visitor_email_address: willdeans@mindspring.com
 189 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11 (Current version as of 11-15-99)
 190
 191 DATE+FIXED:
 192 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 11-15-99
 193 DETAILS: to recreate:
 194   put a space into the name field of the property box...... this should be disallowed, but is not
 195 FIXED+BY:
 196 IDENTIFIED+BY: William Deans
 197 PLATFORMS: wxWindows
 198 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: Dialog Editor Creates Files It Cannot Parse
 199 Submit: Submit
 200 WORKAROUND: each time a change is made to a dialog..... that section of the wxr file should be written to a buffer and re-parsed..... if the parsing fails the change should be disallowed
 201 visitor_email_address: willdeans@mindspring.com
 202 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11 (Current version as of 11-15-99)
 203
 204 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 26/11/1999
 205 DETAILS: Around line 1234 or the common/docview.cpp file following code exists...
 206
 207 if (!theTemplate)
 208     theTemplate=templates[FilterIndex] ;
 209
 210 The problem is tat FilterIndex is one based and the templates array is zero based. The correct
 211 thing might be to use FilterIndex-1 as the index. Else the following scenario will
 212 cause a crash.
 213
 214 1. Use the docvsmdi example
 215 2. Bring up the file open dlg.
 216 3. Select Files of Type "Text"
 217 4. c:\autoexec.bat for file name
 218 5. Press okay and you should see
 219    the crash.
 220
 221 I understand that it is very
 222 hard to figure out the template
 223 when the user does not select
 224 one of the known extensions but
 225 this simple fix might atleast
 226 avoid the crash....
 227
 228 I started playing with wxMSW
 229 just this morning and have not
 230 yet figured out exactly how to
 231 submit a fix. I atleast wanted
 232 to report it. Besides what I do
 233 for the MSW might not be correct
 234 for the other platforms :-)
 235
 236 Note from JACS: fixed (I hope) by making m_filterIndex
 237 zero-based in MSW wxFileDialog implementation
 238 (it's zero-based in wxGTK/the generic dialog).
 239
 240 IDENTIFIED+BY: Haneef Mohammed
 241 PLATFORMS: wxMSW
 242 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: Bug in wxDocTemplate::SelectDocumentPath()
 243 WORKAROUND:
 244 visitor_email_address: haneef@symphonyeda.com
 245 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.12
 246 DATE+FIXED: 29/11/99
 247 FIXED+BY: Julian Smart <julian.smart@btopenworld.com>
 248
 249 DATE+FIXED:
 250 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 29/11/1999
 251 DETAILS: wxGTK cannot seem to find the default font
 252 on (some?) Debian 2.x systems.  This results
 253 in infinite recursion in wxLoadQueryNearestFont.
 254
 255 It only happens on one of my two Debian machines,
 256 but I haven't investigated thoroughly enough to give
 257 any more detail.
 258
 259 I have made a temporary workaround by trapping
 260 recursion in wxLoadQueryNearestFont with a static
 261 bool flag.
 262
 263 I will investigate the problem further if this bug has
 264 not already been reported by someone else.
 265 FIXED+BY: Vadim, just after 2.1.11?
 266 IDENTIFIED+BY: Tom Marshall
 267 PLATFORMS: wxGTK
 268 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: wxGTK: infinite recursion in font selection
 269 WORKAROUND: Create default font mapping for every
 270 wxGTK app (?)
 271 visitor_email_address: tommy@aa.net
 272 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11
 273
 274 DATE+FIXED:
 275 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 29/11/1999
 276 DETAILS: If the listening socket cannot be obtained
 277 (ie, TIME_WAIT) the wxsocket server example
 278 program segfaults.
 279 FIXED+BY:
 280 IDENTIFIED+BY: Tom Marshall
 281 PLATFORMS: wxGTK
 282 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: wxGTK: wxsocket example crashes if listen socket unavailable
 283 WORKAROUND: None.
 284 visitor_email_address: tommy@aa.net
 285 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11
 286
 287 DATE+FIXED: 07/12/1999
 288 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 04/12/1999
 289 DETAILS: In wxTextCtrl::AdjustSpaceLimit(), the check for len > limit
 290 does not take into account when len == limit. This caused the
 291 output to freeze when the limit was reached.
 292 FIXED+BY: Vasu Harish
 293 IDENTIFIED+BY: Vasu Harish
 294 PLATFORMS: wxMSW
 295 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: wxTextCtrl clogs output occassionally when the text size limit is reached
 296 WORKAROUND: In the check for (len > limit) condition in wxTextCtrl::AdjustSpaceLimit()
 297 call, added the condition to check for the len==limit.
 298 visitor_email_address: vasuh@bullant.net
 299 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: wx2.1.11
 300
 301 DATE+FIXED: 30/12/1999
 302 DATE+IDENTIFIED:
 303 DETAILS: the setting of wxvc_dll have a bug of precompiled setting with release version.
 304 FIXED+BY: Pumb Peng
 305 IDENTIFIED+BY: Pumb Peng
 306 PLATFORMS: windows NT
 307 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: wxvc_dll.dsp Bug
 308 Submit: Submit
 309 WORKAROUND:
 310 visitor_email_address:
 311 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11
 312
 313 DATE+FIXED: 05/01/2000
 314 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 04/01/2000
 315 DETAILS: The various message callback members of
 316 wxMessageDialog pass the client_data variable
 317 as in "int" which are later used a pointers. On a 64-bit
 318 system they must be passed as pointers or
 319 as "long" variables.
 320 FIXED+BY: JACS
 321 IDENTIFIED+BY: Ray Lanza
 322 PLATFORMS: motif
 323 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: wxMessageDialog is not 64bit safe
 324 Submit: Submit
 325 WORKAROUND: Change the declaration to void * or long
 326 visitor_email_address: rjl@zk3.dec.com
 327 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.10
 328
 329 DATE+FIXED: 12/01/2000
 330 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 12/01/2000
 331 DETAILS: When I try to Print or create
 332 wxPrintPreview object in the
 333 printing sample, it fails.
 334 The reason is the wxGetDefaultDeviceName
 335 function in file msw/dcprint.cpp. In line 253
 336 the memory is freed, and then
 337 the pointer to the freed memory
 338 is used.
 339 FIXED+BY: Alexey V. Exarevsky (patched into wxWin 12/1/2000 by JACS)
 340 IDENTIFIED+BY: Alexey V. Exarevsky
 341 PLATFORMS: wxMSW, compiled by VC++ 6.0
 342 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: Print/Print preveiw to default printer in NT
 343 Submit: Submit
 344 WORKAROUND: I have moved lines that free
 345 memory below the lines that
 346 use lpszDeviceName and
 347 lpszPortName
 348 visitor_email_address: ave@relex.ru
 349 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11
 350
 351 DATE+FIXED:
 352 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 14/01/2000
 353 DETAILS: I run my linux boxes headless and use a Windows box for an XServer... every sample I have tried so far
 354 hangs in a loop tring to get an acceptable font for something or other... here is the GDB trace
 355 #1102 0x40203d19 in wxMessageBox ()
 356 #1103 0x401aee31 in wxFontMapper::GetAltForEncoding ()
 357 #1104 0x40287c45 in wxLoadQueryNearestFont ()
 358 #1105 0x4015b3cc in wxFont::GetInternalFont ()
 359 #1106 0x4017d1db in wxWindow::GetTextExtent ()
 360 #1107 0x4018f499 in wxDialogBase::CreateTextSizer ()
 361 #1108 0x40253302 in wxGenericMessageDialog::wxGenericMessageDialog ()
 362 #1109 0x40203d19 in wxMessageBox ()
 363 #1110 0x401aee31 in wxFontMapper::GetAltForEncoding ()
 364 #1111 0x40287c45 in wxLoadQueryNearestFont ()
 365 #1112 0x4015b3cc in wxFont::GetInternalFont ()
 366 #1113 0x40154653 in wxWindowDC::DoGetTextExtent ()
 367 #1114 0x4015e3fd in wxFrame::OnCreateStatusBar ()
 368 #1115 0x4015e17d in wxFrame::CreateStatusBar ()
 369 #1116 0x8062edc in ChatFrame::ChatFrame ()
 370 #1117 0x8062d3d in ChatClient::OnInit ()
 371 #1118 0x4014587e in wxEntry ()
 372 #1119 0x401617db in main ()
 373 FIXED+BY:
 374 IDENTIFIED+BY: John Barrett
 375 PLATFORMS: wxGTK
 376 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: wxWin/GTK and X-Win32 on Windows
 377 Submit: Submit
 378 WORKAROUND:
 379 visitor_email_address: jbarrett@box100.com
 380 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11
 381
 382 DATE+FIXED:
 383 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 17.01.2000
 384 DETAILS: wxWindows 2 installer simply replaces msv(i)crt.dll. MUST ONLY overwrite if newer!!! Apart from that: the libraries provided are from VC6Sp1 and are known to be buggy!
 385 FIXED+BY:
 386 IDENTIFIED+BY: Klaus Richter
 387 PLATFORMS: wxMSW
 388 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: Windows Installer problem
 389 Submit: Submit
 390 WORKAROUND: Dlls from at least Sp2 (better 3) are needed (read MSDN KB Q190536)!
 391 visitor_email_address: richter@secude.com
 392 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.11
 393
 394 DATE+FIXED:
 395 DATE+IDENTIFIED: 18/01/2000
 396 DETAILS: I tested wxWindows/GTK+ with a simple example which
 397 uses frame, menu, and statusbar. But when I selected
 398 a menu item which creates a simple 'about dialog'
 399 several times, the program crashed with segmentation fault.
 400 I traced it with gdb, and I got this message:
 401
 402 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault
 403 0x408f1796 in match_theme_image ()
 404   from /usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines/libpixmap.so
 405
 406 I guessed from this message that the pixmap routine in
 407 GTK+ theme engine caused crash. So, I changed GTK+ theme
 408 to default which doesn't use any pixmaps and tested
 409 again. This time, the program didn't crash.
 410
 411 I'm using Redhat 6.1 with egcs 1.1.2.
 412 FIXED+BY:
 413 IDENTIFIED+BY: Sangpil Yoon
 414 PLATFORMS: wxGTK
 415 SHORT+DESCRIPTION: Problem with GTK+ theme
 416 Submit: Submit
 417 WORKAROUND: Currently none.
 418 visitor_email_address: yphil99@yahoo.com
 419 wxWINDOWS+VERSION: 2.1.12
 420
 421 ---------------------------END OF BUGLIST-------------------------
 422
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