[rkward-devel] windows quirks

[Enguerrand de Rochefort]

Hi Thomase,

please find my answers below.

>
> - cd to c:\ before starting RKWard
> - in RKWard setwd ("C:/Documents and Settings/username")
> - then open the file dialog
>

This reproduces the crash.

> If that does *not* trigger the crash, then at least that translates into a
> way
> for us to work around the bug.
>
> Also, could you describe the crash itself, in more detail? Do you get an
> application has crashed message? Or does rkward simply become
> unresponsive?

I get an application crashed message. Find screenshots attached.

> Immediately after calling File->Open, or with some delay?

It takes around half a minute for the crash to occur after clicking the
browsing button.

>
> I'm also still trying to understand, what might be special about your
> setup
> for this to occur. On the WinXP boxes that I have tested so far, I have
> not
> seen this problem. Are there many drive letters on your system? Network or
> special drives? Are all drive letters accessible?

Find screenshot of network drives layout attached. I have access to all
drives, but some servers are located at remote sites resulting in a rather
slow network connection to those drives if that's relevant.

> Could you post a screenshot
> of a file-dialog pointed at your home directory?
>

Sure. Screenshot attached. When I click on home it does not show my
C:/documents and settings/myusername folder, so I have also attached a
screenshot of that directory (named my "real home"). (Note I have blurred
filenames, if you need the unmodified screenshot I can send it to you
directly.)


> On Wednesday 21 November 2012, Enguerrand de Rochefort wrote:
>> By the way, even if the application does not crash, the file browsing
>> dialog takes a long time to come up.
>> (almost one minute)
>
> Hm, it's normal for the file dialog to take a while, particularly for the
> first file dialog you open. Almost one minute sounds *very* long, though.
> Is
> the hard-disk working during that time?

My notebook is quite silent and the work environment is loud, so I can't
tell. Is there a smart way to check other then listening to the hard
drive?

> If you start up the process
> manager,
> does rkward.frontend.exe hog the CPU while the file dialog is starting?

CPU always <8% during the delay. A short peak up to 20% right before the
dialog comes up.

> How
> long does it take the dialog to open the second time?

File -> Import -> Import format ->  Import Text format / csv data ->
browse button is how I open the dialog. If I only close the file dialog,
and then click the browse button again the dialog comes up directly.
However, if I also close the Import Text format dialog and then reopen it
the file dialog takes a long time to come up again.

>
> Thanks!
> Thomas
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