[therion] Re: Therion hangs occaisionally

[Stacho Mudrak]

May be it has something to do with multi-threading. If two events are processed in parallel, something like this may happen. Then a version of Tcl/Tk build with "-diable-threads" option should solve the problem.

Regards, S.

Martin Sluka wrote:

> There are the same things rarely under MacOS X, but it is definitely in TCL. And it mainly if I try to do several steps very fast - click, move with mouse, choose menu item and so on.
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> At 13:21 +0000 17.12.2004, Wookey wrote:
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>> +++ Stacho Mudrak [04-12-17 08:52 +0100]:
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>>>  >Not sure what can be done about this apart from saving often, but thought I
>>>  >should report it.
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>>>  No idea why this happens - from time to time it happened to me also, but
>>>  it was very rare. In any case, I will probably add "Auto save" feature
>>>  to xtherion.
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>> It did it again after I sent that mail - just as I was re-drawing the scrap
>> that it had lost! That's far too often. I have 20km of cave to draw - I am
>> going to get very annoyed if I keep losing chucks...
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>> Difficult to track this sort of think down I know. I'll see if I can work
>> out what is going on. Are there any 'escape' mechanisms in wish/tcl that
>> might let me regain control? or debug mechanisms that might tell us where it
>> got stuck? The CPU use is not excessive, but the app is unresponsive - so it
>> is presumably blocking waiting for something.
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>> I could run it under strace I suppose...
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>> Wookey
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