This seems quite readily reproducible. 80% of the time, using alt-tab
to task away from a shoes app or back to it causes an immediate crash
offering to send microsoft an error report. 10% of the time it
misbehaves for a short period before crashing (window refusing to come
up, no system menu on right click in taskbar, or window draws as all
white). and another 10% of the time the task switch succeeds.
Switching tasks via the mouse (clicking visible windows, clicking
taskbar buttons, etc) does not ever appear to trigger this bug.

The ways in which I have launched shoes thus far include: selecting
from the start menu shortcut and choosing "Open an App", and invoking
shoes via cygwin from the same PWD as the source file, with a command
like this:

je...@laputa:/home/Jesse/dev/project/ (long-assed cygwin prompt, yo!)>
/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Common\ Files/Shoes/0.r1134/shoes.exe
shoesapp.rb

The behavior is the same either way. It looks like when I invoke via
cygwin command line, a console prompt does come up AFTER the crash
however (and after the MS error report offer) complaining that the
source file cannot be found, triggered at lib/shoes.rb line 393. I
just tested, and that console window is also susceptible to the bug,
which if invoked spawns another console window with an identical
complaint. Closing a shoes app normally appears to cause no trouble.

Is anyone else seeing this, or are there further troubleshooting steps
I might perform? Note that I'm not clear where to file bug reports
since the move to github (would love to be pointed the right way
though, thankies!) and I've lost all of my awexome "can compile shoes"
prowess at the same time. (this aggravated by my hiatus working with
shoes ;)  I have git in cygwin and I think I know how it works, and I
still have "Windows DDK 3790.1830" installed, but I don't know if
that's still the soup du jour nor do I recall how the blasted thing
works. ;3

Thanks juys! :D

- - Jesse

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