WIN XP: Preferences dialog crashes
On XP, the two latest builds:
http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0701071623.7z http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0701061515.7z
crash when trying to open Preferences dialog. Previous builds are OK. Unfortunately the backtrace I could get on Windows is less than helpful, but on one try I got a message "failed to allocate 1024 bytes"; on other tries it just died silently.
Anyone else seeing this?
bulia byak wrote:
On XP, the two latest builds:
http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0701071623.7z http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0701061515.7z
crash when trying to open Preferences dialog. Previous builds are OK.
This could be caused by recent commits by me; although I think that a complete clean build is made for these packages. For WIN32, I have added a variable to the preferences data structure which can crash the dialog. Because the dependencies are not correctly 'calculated', a complete clean build is necessary. For me, building clean always gave a stable Preferences dialog on WinXP.
Regards, Johan
bulia byak wrote:
On XP, the two latest builds:
http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0701071623.7z http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0701061515.7z
crash when trying to open Preferences dialog. Previous builds are OK. Unfortunately the backtrace I could get on Windows is less than helpful, but on one try I got a message "failed to allocate 1024 bytes"; on other tries it just died silently.
Anyone else seeing this?
I don't know if this is the problem, but earlier there was an error, that when there was a problem reading the preferences file, an assert() would be called. This would be extreme overkill, and would be another symptom of Inkscape having far too many assert()'s in it.
Assert() is 80's tech, and a proper C++ program should either handle a problem gracefully or throw an exception.
But this might not be the problem at all. It is just something that I noticed before.
bob
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