[lazarus] Lazarus still freezes X

[Andrew Johnson]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:47:28 +0200
"Mattias Gaertner" <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote :

>
>On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:12:18 -0400
>"Andrew Johnson" <aj_genius at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:06:33 +0200
> > "Mattias Gaertner" <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote :
> >
> > >The problem is not, where it does _not_ freeze. I myself don't have
> > >such a freezer.
> > >The freezes appear on a RH7.3 to RH8.0 upgraded computer and with the
> > >
> > >current lazarus, the lazarus one month ago, but not the lazarus 2
> > >months ago.
> > >So, this is probably something Andrew and I have done.
> >
> > Hmm, I just thought of something.. I had set Hint Window's to be
> > transient to the main form, before I changed the BorderStyle code, but
> > I never removed it when I was done. Since Hint Window's are still
> > popup's..it is possible that they could get stuck recieving all
> > Lazarus Mouse calls, though I thought this had been fixed, but if
> > something in X or later versions of GTK has changed the behaviour of
> > popup's this could have some deadly results. Try disabling the code
> > that set hint windows transient for now. It is in the create routine..
> > I will look into making Hint windows Bordlerless Transient Dialogs
> > instead on my system here and see how well that works. If it takes
> > care of all the problems I will commit it and see what happens for
> > other people using RH >=7.3
>
>I also thought so, but the hints were not created at all and it freezes.
>I looked at the grabbing code in the gtk itself and found out, that the
>old capturing code in the gtk interface did not really play nice
>together with some of the gtk widgets. So, I completely rewrote the
>capturing/uncapturing and now it seems to work ... time will show ...

Well bright side.. I think, though I can't be positive yet, that at least 
the hintwindow errors on destroy widget are gone now. I think that transient 
windows are destroyed with the parent, so if hint windows still existed(had 
valid handles in memory).. we get invalid typecasts.

Andrew

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