[wxruby-users] A bug in wxRuby. Segmentation fault in random situations.

[Alex Fenton]

Leonardo Otero wrote:
> Do you know if this bug is fixed for the wxruby (1.9.7) I'm running the 
> bigdemo.rb in 2 different machines with win XP SP2 obtaining the 
> following error:
> -----------------------
> C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\wxruby-1.9.7-x86-mswin32-60\samples\bigdemo>ruby
> bigdemo.rb
> bigdemo.rb:823: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i386-mswin32]
>
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual 
> way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
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> As described by Jacek Nowak:
>
>   
>> the crash occurs randomly in different situations, basicly when an
>> event like pressing a button, opening a window, changing focus, etc.
>> occurs (it doesn't occur when I don't touch the mouse/keyboard)
>>     

Thanks for the report. The bug that Jacek described was fixed in 1.9.7 
so this must be something else. Could you be more specific about where 
the crash occurs (eg which part of bigdemo.rb is running). We will need 
to run it under a debugger to pin down the problem.

alex