GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 73819
Hangs on File/Quit command so that it must be manually killed.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I've set HOME variable in autoexec.bat (otherwise Dia dies already by start even in 0.89 version on Win 95). But after some actions (like resizing the Canvas window, opening UML Class Properties dialog, opening Diagram tree window etc.) DOS Prompt window opens with message: "This program may only be started by Microsoft Windows" and Dia dies (Not responding) and I have to kill it (Ctrl-Alt-Del -> End Task). On Windows 2000 works the same binary distribution fine.
Did you install using the installer or zipfiles? Were there previous versions of dia installed on the system?
I have used Installer. Version 0.88 was installed before with similar behavior. I uninstalled version 0.88 with Uninstall command in start menu and then I cleaned registry.
Could you try to re-install again and make sure that the folder you install to is empty (that there are no leftover files from the previous install)? I'm not sure wether this might help, though.
I've installed it in a completely new folder c:\dia (with no spaces and no Uppercase/lowercase mix)
and did that fix the problem?
No it didn't. But now I am using version 0.90 which works. This version dies just on File/Quit command, so that I have to kill it, but it is usable now. On Windows 2000 Dia works with no problems.
Ok. Then I'll reopen. Also, updating the bug (summary & version) to reflect the new but related problem. Also, since you say it's usable, I'm going to drop severity to normal.
Could you try out the latest dia 0.91 installer and check whether the problem still exists? Installing to c:\dia is a good idea - One Windows 9* user reported problems with the non-8.3 compliant folder name c:\program files - he had to use c:\program~1 in the batch file.
I have tried version 0.91-3. This version hangs already on start (during Loading... screen). But I think it is not worth the effort to fix. Win 95 is rather obsolete, I have upgraded to Win XP, old machine with Win 95 I have left to my children to play. On Win XP and Win 2000 there is no problem.
even Gtk is not known to work on win9x - it works with some known restrictions on win98, as long as still use my small notebook :-) Setting to WONTFIX for win95 a the reporter suggested.