On 25/03/11 10.24, Mark Dootson wrote: Hi,
I've used up all my tuits messing around with 64 bit wxWidgets 2.9.1 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard - but failed miserably.
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Both apparently hang during 4th test group. But, all you have to do is interact with the system anywhere - e.g. move the mouse over the dock or the menu - not necessarily anything to do with perl instances - and tests continue. There are several such hangs - and always any interaction with the desktop allows the tests to continue. There is one 'real' test failure - but I assume that is because Wx::ComboBox is similar to Wx::ListBox family and should skip that particular test. If you install Wx anyway, and then go to the samples folder to run minimal.pl - if you click the top left close X button of the frame - but ensure that you do not move the mouse - nothing happens. As soon as you move the mouse, the app exits. If, however, you use the keyboard shortcut (command Q), the app quits as you would expect. Exactly the same thing happens with Wx::Demo. For whatever reason, ExitMainLoop does not Exit until something gives the event loop a push. I've tried all the obvious workarounds - WakeUpIdle, ensuring frame set as main window. Ensuring SetExitOnFrameDelete(1). All produce no effect.
I am using SVN trunk, not 2.9.1, and it seems usable; I wouldn't advise random users to use it though. (Some tests failures are to be expected, I'll try to fix it in wxWidgets itself).
I thought perhaps backporting change r66229 from wxWidgets trunk might help. Was targeted at windows but seemed similar problem. Made no difference. So I'll retire defeated on that one. The second issue was 2.9.1 pushing wxASSERT_MSG to alert dialogs in the release build !!!. It's a feature. (I can see the point - if only I understood how to turn them off)
Why do you want to? Again: I don't see many of them using trunk, and if I'm doing something wrong (or if there a bug in wxWidgets, as it seems the case) I'd like to be alerted rather than the application randomly failing.
Hope it points someone else in directions that save them time.
I think the best advice is for users to stick to 2.8 (or be prepared to face random failures); wxWidgets development versions aren't for general user consumption, and the OS X/Cocoa port is much less mature than the other ports.
Regards, Mattia
