[Xastir] Interface glitch

[John Ronan]

I'll dig the laptop out of my car tomorrow and see if I can reproduce  
it as well...

John

On 7 Nov 2006, at 16:55, Eric Christensen wrote:

> Curt,
> I'll see if I can come up with the right combination to make it easily
> reproducible.
>
> Eric KF4OTN
>
>
> Curt, WE7U wrote:
>> 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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