[Xastir] Interface glitch

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, John Ronan wrote:

> Come to think of it.. that happened me as well.
>
> John
>
> On 6 Nov 2006, at 21:29, Eric Christensen wrote:
>
> > I had similar problems earlier, too.  I would add an interface and
> > then
> > the interface box would show up with no buttons.  If I closed the
> > interface box and open it right back up it would all come back with no
> > problems and the new interface would be in the window.  It was a small
> > annoyance and didn't really break anything.

A single person reporting a problem may mean that it's a
non-repeatable glitch.  Three people reporting it in quick
succession means that it is a real problem.

At first I just figured it was another Lesstif or Motif bug, but now
I think it's more likely the below:

Near as I can figure the hang might be due to the interface
configuration code trying to kill/restart the read/write threads
associated with that interface.  I'll have to play a bit and see if
there's a timing issue between that and bringing up the dialog
again.  If so, perhaps disallowing or delaying the dialog until the
first operation has completed might be a reasonable fix.

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