Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] "Save As" problem, please test some more dialogs!

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

To anyone reported problems with the "Save As" dialog.

It seems that my checkin fixed the problem.


Some info on the problem and my workaround:

It seems, that (some?) X servers don't like reporting any geometry 
values from a currently hidden GDK window. As Win32 don't use an X 
server I could not reproduce the problem.

As the "Save As" dialog is hidden before trying to save a file, we 
running into that problem. All other Ethereal windows (incl. dialogs) 
are not hidden at all, so no problem with them. The Save As dialog is 
hidden, because if something fails while saving the file, it's simply 
shown again containing the values like before.

The reason I did a change was, that I wanted a general way to keep the 
geometry of a window/dialog box (size and position), so it will be 
placed and sized the same way (especially sized is useful), when it's 
reopened again.

Well, but when Ethereal tries to get that geometry values from the 
hidden "Save As" dialog, the crash happens.

The thing I checked in isn't really fixing the problem, as it just won't 
try to get that geometry values from a currently hidden window.

There is a drawback: it will *not* save the geometry of that "Save As" 
dialog as described above.


As I'm currently unsure if this fixes all bugs in that way, could anyone 
reported problems, please play around with the GUI and report any other 
dialogs making problems that way.

Regards, ULFL