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Message #13440
Re: Another strange thing happening launching from the kicad manager
On 05/27/2014 08:53 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> On 05/27/2014 02:43 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:33:30AM +0200, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
>>> to pinpoint where the event loop is getting stuck... all the UI works
>>> (menu opens and so on) but code is not getting dispatched.
>>
>> OK, it was actually easier than I tought... during library load a lib is
>> missing and it want to show the 'The following libraries could not be
>> found:' dialog.
>>
>> It does the ShowModal and the following nested gtk-main loop but the
>> dialog is not mapped (strangely other UI elements are still accessible,
>> something in the 'modal' stuff is incomplete). I presume it's still
>> waiting for a dialog dismissal (but the dialog is not on screen anyway)!
>>
>> No complaints from the debug gtk, either.
>>
>> Could it be that at that time some wx structure is not yet ready from
>> the kiface machinery?
>>
>
> Alright, let's fix the message output capability first, (before we supply the library
> which would sweep the reporting bug under the rug).
>
> Help me duplicate the reporting bug please.
>
> Can you do a
>
> $ ldd _eeschema.kiface
>
> and see what's missing? I can hide that library and try and duplicate your situation.
Or did you mean missing schematic libraries :) ?
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