[Therion] Linux xtherion will not load thconfig

[Martin Budaj]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 6:05 PM Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> There is a bug in xtherion 5.5.7, at least in the debian build I am
> using (therion 5.5.7ds1-2).
>
> If you try to open a thconfig file, you get an error:
>
> "thconfig.thcfg does not exist".
>
> Fortunately you can run 'xtherion thconfig' and that works, otherwise
> xtherion would be completely broken unless you renamed all your thconfig
> files.


There is a workaround, though. If you change 'Files of type:' to 'All files
(*)' in the Open dialog, opening the 'thconfig' file works.


> This seems a fairly fundamental bug - I'm surprised it's not come
> up before.


I'm quite sure it used to work some time ago and there was no change in
xtherion source in this respect, so I guess something had to change in the
tcl/tk library in Debian. The version of tcl/tk used for the windows
installer doesn't have this bug.


> This is now in the version in Debian stable, so people will
> be getting it for the next 2 years, which is somewhat embarassing.
> Hopefully we can declare it bad enough to get a fix in.
>

Or backport 6.0.2+ ;)


> I've not looked into the code yet for a fix, but can someone confirm
> this is not just me?
>

 Confirmed. Stacho has already fixed it in the master branch.

M.
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