Re: gtk_file_chooser page faults (win32)

[David <dbree duo-county com>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:39:34AM -0700, John Finlay wrote:
> David wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:50:18AM +0000, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> >
> >
> > > David writes:
> > > > This crash could be caused by something I'm doing, and not by
> > > > gtk_file_chooser,  but it doesn't show up under msys [or Linux].  I 
> > > wonder
> > > > if anyone else has encountered anything like this?
> > >
> > > It is, of course, quite possible and even probable that there are bugs
> > > in the Win32 implementation of GtkFileChooser et al. It definitely
> > > seems to be broken at least on systems with multi-byte code pages, see
> > > Bugzilla bug #141124. But that bug has been reported only on
> > > Chinese/Japanese/Korean machines. You aren't using such a system, are
> > > you?

> > No, it's an English/US setup.  I am using Win98, if that would make a
> > difference.

> > When go to a window created by "MS-Dos Prompt" and run it from the
> > command line, it crashes.  If I run it from the command line in the msys
> > window, it executes seemingly correctly.

> > > It shouldn't make any difference at all to GTK whether the
> > > program has been started from a console window's command prompt
> > > (cmd.exe), or MSYS's shell in a rxvt window (doesn't MSYS use a port
> > > of rxvt?), or the Windows Explorer.

> > I do believe it is rxvt.  It does seem odd that it's working this way.
> > I get 4 lines of error messages (I'll go into windows and get the exact
> > filenames and line #'s when I get the chance) - but surely at least
> > _someone_ else should be getting the same errors.  These messages all
> > appear to be caused by the fact that pointers to strings - filename and
> > pathnames - are supposed to be passed but a NULL pointer is getting
> > passed instead.

> This sounds similar to the following bug:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148803

This one has error messages that resemble what I get.  IIRC, I get 2
error messages relating to gtkfilesystem.c, and two from another file
(gtkfilechooser.c?)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139249

One difference between this bug and mine.. I can't seem to get a
backtrace after the crash.

> though it doesn't crash on Linux.

It seems to work alright for me on Linux, as well as in rxvt operating
under msys.