Panel Loops (Was: Re: GWorkspace - viewer preference persistence)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi German,

let me quite myself. I want to fix this problem before a new release, 
however I discovered it is not always reproducible.

I asked Gregory for help and obviously it works at his place.

I tried on my OpenBSD/gcc computer and it works fine.
I tried on FreeBSD/clang/libobjc2 and it reproduces.
I tried on NetBSD/gcc and it reproduces


The quickest test is to make a file read-only and try to rename it.

How do other people fare with their setups? I see no patters. My 3 
machines are x86-32,it is not related to clang/libobjc-2 only.... I 
don't get it.

I have no real clue, but usually system dependent stuff means stuff like 
mismatching signatures, nsuinterer/nsinteger.... casts...

Warnings might be a clue

On 09/12/13 11:51, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09/12/13 06:42, Germán Arias wrote:
> > On 2013-09-11 03:54:23 -0600 Riccardo Mottola 
> > <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, the problem is only with directories.
> Actually the problem is real and for many different errors, I looked 
> at the code closely. You can:
>
> 1) mark a file read-only, try to rename it later
> 2) try to rename a file to zero-length
> 3) try to rename a directory with a ".app" extension
> 4) there are a couple of other exceptions you can trigger
>
> I checked the code, which did no t change significantly over the 
> years, but used to work! (if you try on debian where all packages are 
> stone-age old, everything works!
>
> The code does:
>
> -> error condition
> -> Show alert panel
> -> run stop-editing code & return
>
> Essentially it never stop editing properly and gets in a sort of loop.
>
> A quick fix is to "stop" the editing before runnig the alert panel: it 
> will work (except for the fact that to continue editing you need to 
> click on another file and get back). But this is not the real 
> solution: for a panel with a YES/NO choice... you can't :)
>
> Currently I'm at loss here
>
> Riccardo
>
> PS: while debugging this I found an incredible number of exceptions! 
> being in the debugger showed them, I fixed all of them :) Fix this and 
> the next GWorkspace will be great! hah!
>
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