Thanks for confirming.

Do you mind submitting a bug report? Otherwise I'll do it, sign up to
bugzilla etc.

Thanks,
Erwin



On 20 May 2010 15:49, Michael Ross <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, I can confirm that.  I am using Win 7 and Dia 0.97.1
>
> I got Dia to exit by picking on the window X in the upper right then
> tabbing to select the <exit without save> button and hitting enter.  Trying
> again I got the window to die with picking the X this time. This is not
> dependable.
>
> I can also delete the ellipse with a ctrl-z combo, but it is still stuck.
>
> The windows 7 task bar will let me close the window.
>
> I tried the T for text keystroke and that also caused the same lockup.
>
> What hangs seems to be the cursor for stretching the ellipse.  Keystrokes
> still work, the rulers are showing cursor position, but the cursor won't
> shake loose of the four pointed arrow.
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Erwin Coumans <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just downloaded and tried to use the Windows version of Dia. Within a
>> few minutes of using it, the Dia GUI became unresponsive/locked up.
>>
>> It is very easy to reproduce:
>>
>> 1) Select the 'Ellipse' drawing tool (or press the E key)
>> 2) Starting drawing an Ellipse by pressing the Left Mouse button, but
>> don't release the Left Mouse button yet
>> 3) Select the Arc drawing tool by pressing the A key using the keyboard
>> (while keeping the mouse button pressed!)
>>
>> now the GUI becomes unresponsive and locks up. There seems no interaction
>> possible anymore, except for killing the program using the task manager.
>>
>> I couldn't find this issue in the bug tracker, is it a known issue?
>>
>> Secondly, a common convention is to lock an ellipse into a sphere (scale X
>> == scale Y), when holding the SHIFT key while drawing the ellipse. Is this a
>> planned feature, or is there an alternative?
>> (MS Paint or Google Documents Drawing does this for example. This is how I
>> got into the lockup, I pressed the A key by accident, above the shift key)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erwin
>>
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