Alt-F, S -> lockup while saving

[Ron]

I don't want to say this again, but I cannot reproduce your bugreport. Is your computer working correctly ? Can some other people try this and report if they see this bug or not.

[Ron]

Thanks, I'll be looking into this plugin asap.

[Ron]

Mark, where you able to reproduce the bug ?

[Ron]

Win9x right ?

[Mark F]

This is NOT a fix (only Ron will be able to offer that) but a possible work around:

bring up the settings dialog
choose the General tab
check the box for "Don't send IR commands when Girder is the foreground window"


This works for me since I leave Girder in the tray unless I'm editing/debugging something. Hope this helps. :)

[Mark F]

I'm using Win '98 SE and 3.1.2e and do NOT see this problem. Sorry. :(

Are you using the keyboard plugin, by chance?

[Mark F]

Yes. After turning on the Keyboard plugin, I was able to reproduce the bug.

Pressing an accelerator (Alt+F, Alt+E, Alt+H, Alt+Space) makes a menu appear. The next key press (doesn't seem to matter what key) causes the event indicator to blink VERY fast and continuously. Changing the focus to a different app makes the menu go away and stops the blinking.

Girder does not appear to crash or otherwise be adversly affected by this behavior. That is, it continues to work from this point.

Hope this helps. :)

[Mark F]

Yes. I'm using Win '98 SE and Girder 3.1.2e to reproduce this problem.

[mcguyton]

If I save my Girder settings with "Alt-F, S" it seems to lock Girder 3.1.2e in Win98SE (but all other programs continue to function). I can get out of this by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del (Windows' Close Program window), then just hitting Esc without closing anything. Then Girder returns to normal functioning.

If I click on "Save" in the "File" menu, it works fine.

[mcguyton]

It DOES lock all the other programs...

[mcguyton]

Keyboard plugin? Yes - it's the only one I'm using.
Keyboard driver 1.1 by Ron Bessems, according to the settings,
But I think it's actually 2.0c according to what it says under the "Hardware Plugins" tab when you highlight it.

Ok - I can see there were some things unexplored in my original bug report. Here's what more I've figured out:

It's not that it particularly "locks" all the programs, but rather it takes up most of my CPU time once I press it. If I switch to another application, this unfreezes everything (Girder CPU usage goes back to normal).

This problem doesn't occur when the keyboard plugin is disabled.

I hope this post is more helpful than the previous ones :)