Just an update, I have a ton of old shoes environs floating around in my common files folder too.. so I tested against that lot.
The oldest I have is 433, next oldest is 533. Alt-tab seems to work smoothly with 433 and fail on 533 or above. So this might be a bug that crept in between 433 and 533, or an incompatibility with the newest Windows XP hotfixes that wasn't present in 433 (I don't recall having alt-tab problems a few months ago :P) and/or it might be related to only the first-installed version of shoes on a system behaving properly. Them's my theories. Also tested invoking shoes via DOS prompt, same behavior as start menu shortcut. Danke - - Jesse On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Jesse Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
