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I can't even begin to guess about this one, so I'll just list the steps I made: * Start AbiWord * Open the paragraph dialog * Click on some input field to make it active, e.g. the "Indentation By" one. * Click on some non-AbiWord-related window to give it focus. When I try to give focus back to AbiWord it appears to be completely stuck, to the point where it neither repaints its windows, nor allows me to move them around. I should be able to test this under Linux as well. No promises, though.
I couldn't reproduce this bug using the above steps, but here are some that lead to perhaps the same problem: * Start AbiWord * Open the paragraph dialog * Keep pressing the up arrow on the "Indentaion Left" field until AbiWord freezes up (after about 7.7in or 20.0cm) I then have to use task manager to close AbiWord ("End Task"). My steps don't really have anything to do with losing focus, but if you do give focus to another window then AbiWord, it shows the same behavior (neither repaints its windows, nor allows me to move them around).
I can still reproduce this behaviour in 0.7.11, I'm afraid.
I had almost forgotten I submitted this bug report. I can still reproduce it in 0.7.12. Unfortunately I have neither the tools nor the expertise to write up a better bug report than this.
I can't reproduce this bug using 0.7.13 on win2k
I can reproduce this in a current nightly on Win98.
system = P2 266 128RAM Win95 Abi = installed from Setup_Abiword-0.7.14.exe downloaded 4/24/01 I cannot reproduce the behavior described. I took the indentation to over 200 inches and Abi never crashed or froze.
Cannot reproduce on 7.14 with Win2K. Marking as FIXED. Since others cannot reproduce as well, I will also close it.
Unfortunately, I can still reproduce it with 0.9.0 on Windows 98. And not just in the paragraph dialog; the input fields on the Plugin Details tab of the AbiWord Plugin Manager dialog behaves the same way. I.e. if I click on one, then make another (non-AbiWord-related) window active, AbiWord hangs. For a while I thought this meant there was some generic problem with input fields, but then I noticed that I *couldn't* reproduce it with, say, the Tabs dialog. So now I'm clueless again.
I can still reproduce this with 0.9.4.1 on Windows 98: I start AbiWord, open the Format Paragraph dialog, and click on any of the editable parts of it (combo boxes, data fields, check boxes, ...). Then I give focus to a non-AbiWord window, e.g. Notepad, and when I go back to AbiWord it's stuck. If I remove focus from the combo box/data field/check box (by bringing up the other tab) before giving focus to Notepad, it works. No hang. I've gone through all the other dialogs that I've been able to find, and the only other one which I can get to hang this way is the Preference dialog. (I used to be able to hang the Plugins dialog, but apparently no longer.) Could it be related to tabbed dialogs somehow? Anyway, from my point of view this bug should still be open.
This is a problem for OS older than Win98SE due to a DS_CONTROL style for tabbed dialogs. I have removed that style for tabbed dialogs. This appears to clear up this hanging issue
I am no longer able to reproduce this bug in a snapshot build from January 30, so I'll stop pestering you about it now. Thanks!
This bug has been at QA TO VERIFY for awhile - I verified that it is fixed with 0.99.2 on both Win95B and Win98 today, can't get it to crash in either the Paragraph dialog or the Plugin Manager dialog. Also, looks like the original submitter confirmed the fix on 2002-02-04 so we can most likely consider this issue closed.