Re: Gnome::Spell problems

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 06/27/01 Andrew Schretter wrote:
> I've been trying to get the Gnome::Spell widget to work, but
> it has been crashing my application shortly after using it.
>
> I reduced it to the simplest case possible, a text area that pops up a spell
> checking dialog.  The code is reproduced below. Upon running the program, one
> can enter text into the textarea, then try to spell check it, you can just close
> the dialog and or try checking the document a couple more times and it crashes
> on my system with a segmentation fault in perl.
>
> It is probably because I am not closing something properly, but
> I can't find it.  Ideas?  I'm using the CVS version of GtkPerl from
> around Jun 13th and gnome-libs-1.2.11.
[...]
>    $w->signal_connect('destroy', sub { $sp->kill; $w->destroy; });
>    $w->signal_connect('delete_event', sub { $sp->kill; $w->destroy; });
>    $b->signal_connect('clicked', sub { $sp->kill; $w->destroy; });

There is a problem in the C library, so you should avoid killing the 
ispell process: remove the $sp->kill calls and it should be more stable.

Thanks for providing the test case for this.

lupus

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