Dia for Windows lockup

[Erwin Coumans <erwin coumans gmail com>]

Hi,

I just downloaded and tried to use the Windows version of Dia. Within a few minutes of using it, the Dia GUI became unresponsive/locked up.

It is very easy to reproduce:

1) Select the 'Ellipse' drawing tool (or press the E key)

2) Starting drawing an Ellipse by pressing the Left Mouse button, but don't release the Left Mouse button yet

3) Select the Arc drawing tool by pressing the A key using the keyboard (while keeping the mouse button pressed!)

now the GUI becomes unresponsive and locks up. There seems no interaction possible anymore, except for killing the program using the task manager.

I couldn't find this issue in the bug tracker, is it a known issue?

Secondly, a common convention is to lock an ellipse into a sphere (scale X == scale Y), when holding the SHIFT key while drawing the ellipse. Is this a planned feature, or is there an alternative?

(MS Paint or Google Documents Drawing does this for example. This is how I got into the lockup, I pressed the A key by accident, above the shift key)

Thanks,

Erwin