Re: gtk-based sip client "locking up"

[JustFillBug <mozbugbox yahoo com au>]

On 2004-04-26, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net> wrote:
> Frank W. Miller wrote:
> > I'm writing a SIP client for Linux.  It has a command line interface 
> > currently but I've recently begun writing a GNOME GUI front-end.  I 
> > started with Glade and had reasonable success, i.e. I got it to where is 
> > was making outbound calls with decent UI interactions.  I then noticed a 
> > problem.  About half the time, when I started to make a call, i.e. when 
> > I was sending the first few messages of the SIP dialog, the GUI would 
> > "lock up" on me.  What this means is that I have a couple of notebook 
> > tabs and some entry fields on each tab.  There are also a couple of 
> > buttons.  Its pretty simple.  By lock up, I mean that at some point the 
> > GUI just stops updating the various widgets.  If I hit the tabs, it 
> > seems like its trying to switch between them but I just get white 
> > rectangles and no labels.  The program does not seem to recover from this.


It's most likely that your sip calling function never return for some
reason. As a result, that call kinda 'hijacked' the whole program.