From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-09-18T20:29:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Qt vs. FOX vs. ? (was Help on  installing ruby-qt on windowsXP)


"Lyle Johnson" <lyle@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
news:3D87AC9E.2020007@users.sourceforge.net...
> MikkelFJ wrote:
>
> > The latest releases of FxRuby has improved stability significantly - get
the
> > 1.6.7 install for Windows.
> > The scintilla test application crashes within seconds but almost all
other
> > sample applications appears stable.
>
> If anyone else is reading this thread, is the Scintilla test program
> crashing for anyone besides Mikkel? I can't reproduce this crash. I also
> know, for example, that the FreeRIDE group is relying heavily on the
> Scintilla widget and it seems to be working OK.

Well - I tried opening scintilla-test.rbw in RubyWin
It had this annoying feature that focus kept going back to RubyWin, so I
couldn't really test.
Then I closed RubyWin and surprisingly the Scintilla-test application stayed
open.
This time the application remained stable.
However, I was unable to terminate the application using close window or
quit in the menu.
So I suspect it is a close event going wild in the scintilla-test
application in the 1.6.7 distribution.
(Could also be influenced by RubyWin using Scintilla, so another Scintilla
version might have been loaded).
(To avoid confusion: the crash scenario was simply the application
terminating after a few keystrokes entered, when started standalone
doubleclicking on the .rbw file in Windows XP, SP1).

I have used the Scintilla based Scite editor on Windows for over a year in
various versions, and it has always been rock solid. The scintilla-test app
were also stable in version 1.6.6 as I recall.

>
> > I also got the TextEdit application crashing when I edited one of the
>  > files implementing it (didn't save it...) but couldn't reproduce.
>
> OK. If you do hit on a way to reproduce it, let me know.

BTW: The crash was a serious one like "instruction could not be read"
messagebox or similar. The scenario was simple: type type enter type type
enter randomly a few times then open commands.rb and repeat editing randomly
inside file. Crash within 10 seconds.

Mikkel