[Gambas-user] Sig 11 with menu items remains

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hi Benoit/List:
> 
> 
> A reminder prior to the release that that annoying Sig11 bug remains with
> the menu items, you'll remember I tried to use valgrind with it some time
> ago without success and I think the suggestion was that maybe it is
> related to a QT4 bug.
> 
> Maybe someone else on the list is aware of this or can help.
> 
> I've emailed Ian, who is much more switched on than me about computing to
> see if he can liase with you on this.
> 
> Also lately I've been getting some Sig11 with Result objects, not sure why,
> just to let you know they exist, I'll try and track these down.

If you want to help tracking these bugs, compile Gambas with optimizations 
disabled (run 'make "CFLAGS=-O0 -g" "CXXFLAGS=-O0 -g"' instead of just 
'make'), and enable core dumps. Then, as soon as you get a crash, a core file 
will be generated, and by using gdb on it, you will get a backtrace of the 
crash you can send me.

> 
> Another thing -  at some point before you release, any chance of
> re-debating the spacing property, which as you know used to be in pixels,
> but now somehow relates to something else which I find a major pain, as it
> was wonderful to be able to space once controls by 1 pixel, which no isn't
> possible.

I think you are annoyed because your GUI is maybe too cluttered, aren't you? 
:-)

I don't want to remove the current Spacing property. But I could add the old 
one if someone find a good name for it. I have already used "Margin", 
"Padding, and "Spacing". Internally, the old spacing property is there. It's 
just a matter of finding a good name!

> 
> One last thing - which we have debated before is the behaviour of gambas of
> removing a collection member when it is set to null, which causes our
> project a great deal of greif as we use collections to transfer data from
> our backend, and compare old data to changed data, and to us, having a
> collection member has changed from something to null is significant. If
> setting mycollection!date to null removes it from a collection  we miss
> out one one database field being updated.
> 
> As you know we don't use your data objects.
> 

I won't change the behaviour of the Collection class just for you. It will 
break all other Gambas applications except yours.

Just don't use Collection and create your own container class that fits your 
needs.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini