> KiCad is KiCad of course. Sadly, 3D view crashes when launched here, > some kind of X11 / GLX / GL problem. I was trying to debug it and fix it > for them (in the spirit of cooperation), but it looks like it might be > some nasty WxWidgets internal bug - and I'm not familiar with Wx at all.
I've got a lot of experience with wxWidgets, I even have my name in the wxBook by Julian Smart the wxWidgets (known as wxWindows when he started the project, until Micro$oft threatened to sue him). The standard reply to bug reports bug reports is "Recreate the problem in the Minimal Sample" and send us a patch and a back trace. I went through this cycle yesterday so you can see an example here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.wxwindows.general/71265 The Minimal Sample is the smallest possible meaning for wx program you can create, a kind of 'Hello World' for wx. The two most common problems in wx are people trying to manipulate the GUI from other threads. This can not be done, you most post events to the GUI thread. This is not wx specific actually, just a general lack of understanding of how the underling system of Windows is not thread safe in many cases. The other common problem that causes a lot of crashes, mostly on exit, is to delete a dialog or a frame rather than 'destroy' it. If there are pending events meant for the dialog/frame that has been deleted, wx crashes, rather than assigning them to oblivion. I've never understood that part of the base design myself. Most other crashes are the type you see far to often, like buffer overflows, using deleted memory; the standard security risk stuff that doesn't get enough attention in the drive to ship code fast. Also note the comments under DJ's Video, how they most all complain about the lack of Windows version, even quoting the gEDA site saying Windows was not the focuses of the project. The focus of the project is getting work done to make shippable products, or education usage. The "Tools to make Tools" philosophy should have died a long time ago. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
