Re: Gorm from lastest CVS can't compile

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 03:36 PM, Dennis Leeuw wrote:

> Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>
> >   The error message is:
> >
> >   Syntax error: "fi" unexpected (expecting ")")
> >   gmake[3]: *** [0Menus.palette/Resources/palette.table] Error 2
> >   gmake[2]: *** [0menus.all.palette.variables] Error 2
> >
> >   Sorry that I don't know what kind of error message I should post 
> > here.
> >
> >   By the way, when I exit ProjectCenter and Gorm after doing something,
> >   it always core dumped.
> >   I use FreeBSD 4.5-Release, GCC 3.0, XFree86-4.1.0.
> >   Does anyone have the same problem as I ?
> >   I can't make sure it is because of my system or because of
> > ProjectCenter/Gorm.
>
> Gorm and GWorkspace exit with:
> Mar 08 15:33:48 Gorm[4469] StartupTime -3.296126
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/openapp: line 100:  4469 Segmentation fault
> $full_appname/$appname "$@"

Well, in Gorm I think I tracked down the problem.

Palettes and inspectors release their windows when they are deallocated, 
but
the application now closes all windows on shutdown, and windows are set
(by default) to release themselves when closed ... so the windows were
getting released twice.

I hacked Gorm to refrain from releasing these windows - which seems to 
fix
things ... but I'm not sure this is the correct fix.

Q. Should a window which has never been opened (ie ordered in) be 
closable,
or should it ignore the -close method?

At present, a window is marked as 'closed' when it receives a -close 
message,
and is marked as not being closed if it is ordered in again.  Thus a 
window
which has never been ordered in can be closed.
I *think* this is correct, but I'm not sure.