SourceNav with Windows 2K problems

[Brent Burton]

I have seen this too, also using native 4.5.2 on Win2k.
But what I noticed is that not only must the pointer be in the
window, it must move for SN to update any indicators.

There's a project that's used daily, so I'll refresh it.
I selected Refresh Project from the Tools menu, and select
another app.  Here's a description of what occurs:

Symbol Window:  the "Deleting" progress bar appears, disk
activity is high, but progress bar doesn't move.  Moving the
pointer into the window allows the bar to zip across, completing.

The Rescanning Project dialog appears: As David mentions,
file activity stops when the pointer is outside the window.
I noticed that it also stopped if the pointer was in the window
but didn't' move.  As soon as it moves, progress continues.

Symbol Window: the "Deleting" progress bar reappears, disk
activity is high, and the progress bar doesn't move.  I let
it sit and after about 5 minutes it jumped to 36%, disk
activity was again high, then paused until the pointer entered.
The "xref" progress bar, when it appeared, behaved similarly.

I had noticed this some time ago, even with versions 4.1 and 4.2.
Figuring it to be a quirk with Tcl/Tk on Windows, I lived with it.

Maybe Ben or Mo knows how these are updated (update idletasks?)
and maybe the issue will go away with Tk 8.x.

Hope this info helps.
-Brent


-----Original Message-----
From: David Autry [ mailto:david.autry@marconimed.com ]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 8:54 AM
To: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: SourceNav with Windows 2K problems


I am using the native Windows version of SourceNav on Win 2K.
I just mentioned having Exceed for Win32 as part of my system
configuration and that maybe it might be contributing to the
window focus problem.  As a test, I disabled Exceed and then
did a grep.  Same problem.  Move the cursor out of a SN window,
and all file activity stops.  Move the cursor back in and SN
starts processing files again.

It is interesting to note that the SN window doesn't have to be selected
to start processing files, just having the cursor is enough.

David Autry
Marconi Medical Systems
----- Original Message -----
From: Mo DeJong
To: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: SourceNav with Windows 2K problems


On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, David Autry wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have found a few problems using SourceNav Version 4.5.2 with Windows 2K.
> Im using Exceed for Win32, Version 6.2.0.16 as my X environment.

Are you running SN on some remote system and displaying it on you
Windows box with Exceed? You do know that there is a Windows
native version of SN, right?

If this is your configuration, I suggest that you try
to remote display to a Linux or other Unix box and
see if that fixes your problem. It might just be
a problem with your Exceed server.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc