[Gtranslator-devel] Re: [Fwd: [Bug 68725] Changed - Crash while editing string in gtranslator]

[Roy-Magne Mo <rmo sunnmore net>]

On lau , 2002-01-19 at 21:32, Fatih Demir wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:25, Roy-Magne Mo wrote:
> 
>     On lau , 2002-01-19 at 21:20, Fatih Demir wrote:
>     > Sometimes the editing component crashes quite silently gtranslator, but
>     > this did only occur once or twice for me and as I couldn't reproduce it,
>     > I didn't look much after it.
>     
>     I've gotten gtranslator to crash by unfuzzying the text and marking it fuzzy
>     right after, might be an gal issue.
> 
> Oh, yes, that could be; I guess this is
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61884 you're just getting in
> touch with.

Might very well be.

> There's also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59418 about a
> relatively close issue -- a common fix could fix all that alltogether --
> but this needs time I'm lacking... (OMG, I didn't take really care about
> b.g.o for about some months and I do see how many trash landed in the
> bug basket.. ohoh ;-)).

hmm... I've never realised the meaning of sticky before now, and I've
translated it too!

>     > Besides this, it's quite interesting to view the author's lines in
>     > gtranslator -- the syntax highlighting has got some special ideas about
>     > some parts of it, but these problems are really minimalistic.
>     > 
>     > What are the exact problems we're trying to care about now?!
>     
>     I guess the crashes with the table is the one that matters right now.
> 
> Yes, I would be absolutely happy about a fix for this and if it would
> really work.... well, it's time for a contribution award in
> gtranslator's source history.. Peeter, you could be also a candidate due
> to your patch.. hehe, no, no beer, there's no gtranslator beer out there
> (yet) ;-) And Gediminas.. .ohoh, we need a brevery :-)

beer for bugs!

>     It could be an memory allocation issue. I've tried looking into it -
> 
> .. brave Roy-Magne!

battle scarred, but alive :) 

> I couldn't find a really good reason why it shouldn't occur at once --
> there's a violent point in gtranslator's (messages table) sources crying
> for resolution...

I'm leaning towards that too

>     but the documentation for GAL is rather slim.
> 
> Oh, is there any? News, news :-)

Yes, in the docs directory - but the the parts used in gtranslator isn't
documented. But things are quite similar, so it's semi-documented.

PS: I added gtranslator-devel too... 

-- 
Roy