After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 619246 - Pressing some keys while drawing ellipses can freeze the Dia GUI
Pressing some keys while drawing ellipses can freeze the Dia GUI
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: dia
Classification: Other
Component: win32
unspecified
Other All
: Normal major
: 0.97.2
Assigned To: Steffen Macke
Dia maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-05-20 23:14 UTC by Erwin C
Modified: 2019-03-20 11:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Erwin C 2010-05-20 23:14:31 UTC
It is very easy to reproduce:

1) Select the 'Ellipse' drawing tool (or press the E key)

2) Starting drawing an Ellipse by pressing the Left Mouse button, but don't release the Left Mouse button yet

3) Select the Arc drawing tool by pressing the A key using the keyboard (while keeping the mouse button pressed!)

now the GUI becomes unresponsive and locks up. There seems no interaction possible anymore, except for killing the program using the task manager.

See also discussion here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2010-May/msg00004.html

By the way, it seems it is not specific to Ellipse or Arc, they are just examples.
Comment 1 Erwin C 2010-05-20 23:16:10 UTC
Just to be sure, this is the Windows version of Dia, running on Windows XP.

Reproduced with Dia 0.97.1
Comment 2 rpr 2010-05-21 07:08:48 UTC
The bug is more general actually.

The freezing can be produced as follows:

(1) select a drawing tool

(2) start drawing an object by pressing the left mouse button but don't release the button yet

(3) select any other drawing tool by pressing the corresponding key on the keyboard while the mouse button is still pressed

I've tested this on MS Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Dia 0.97.1.

-- rpr.
Comment 3 Hans Breuer 2010-07-16 11:49:18 UTC
The issue is not completely frozen, just the mouse stays grabbed. So you should be able to save and restart with keyboard shortcuts. Breaking the mouse grab is fixed in HEAD, proper disableing of the tool switch not yet:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/commit/?id=fbfe7ef7057a670b164b23e5d60fd37bc2141284
Comment 4 Hans Breuer 2011-09-25 15:45:52 UTC
cherry-picked to dia-0-97
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2019-03-20 11:49:14 UTC
-- GitLab Migration Automatic Message --

This bug has been migrated to GNOME's GitLab instance and has been closed from further activity.

You can subscribe and participate further through the new bug through this link to our GitLab instance: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/issues/282.