Weired menus in revision 1676

[Der Meister]

As you can see there is a "little" problem with my menus in revision 1676 (Linux, wxGTK 2.6.1):

The problem does not occur in everey menu, Project-, wxSmith-, Tools-, Plugins-, Settings- and Help-menu look alright.

I first assumed it has something to do with the recent modifications of the keybinder plugin (revision 1675 - discussed here) but I could not find the reason for this behaviour.

Has anyone an idea how to solve it or has anyone noticed the same problem?

[mandrav]

Have you tried disabling the keybinder plugin?

[Der Meister]

Sorry, I didn't - just forgot about this obvious solution. 

And yes, after disabling the keybinder-plugin the menus are correct again. 

[mandrav]

This might have to do with the encoding the conf file was saved. Yesterday it was changed, so it might have read an invalid file. Delete the keybinder's conf file, re-enable it and see if it behaves fine this time.

[Der Meister]

This doesn't help. Even if I remove the whole Code::Blocks-configuration file the menus look like this after a restart.
Actually, there are not as much '_' in there as on the screenshot, just about 10 per menu-item. But after opening a project they grow and look like the ones on the screenshot I posted above.

[Pecan]

Oh my, oh my ....

what have I done now ??

I'll re-download and try that. What system is this on??

thanks
pecan

Edit:

Ok, I see, Linux.
I dont have such a beast, and I didnt think that I'd
touched the GTK code. I'll take another look.

thanks

I see the problem. A misplaced #endif
Will fix and re-commit today
1/8/2006 8:59 AM

[Pecan]

As an aside,

what is the fastest way to get a small Linus system
and test this sort of thing?

thanks
pecan

[Der Meister]

Probably the fastest way would be a Live-CD such as Knoppix oder Kanotix. The problem is: If you don't install them on your hard-drive you have to re-install Code::Blocks after every reboot. And the next thing is: I don't know how difficult it is to get Code::Blocks running on them because I don't know if all dependencies (especially wxGTK) are fulfilled.

[mandrav]

This doesn't help. Even if I remove the whole Code::Blocks-configuration file the menus look like this after a restart.
Actually, there are not as much '_' in there as on the screenshot, just about 10 per menu-item. But after opening a project they grow and look like the ones on the screenshot I posted above.

The keybinder configuration is stored in an external file, not inside C::B's configuration file...

[Der Meister]

Oh. Sorry, I didn't know that.
Anyway I searched for such a file and in the keybinder source there is following comment:

//memorize the key file name as {%HOME%}\cbKeyBinder+{vers}.ini

But - I can't find such a file. Anyway, I did never change anything from within the keybinder plugin - maybe it only creates this file if there were any changes?

[Pecan]

Yes, the file is only created if the "reply" button is
invoked from withing the keybinder dialog
(plugin configuration).

Its named cbkeybinder04v16.ini

I've re-commited keybinder, hopefully leaving the
GTK code unmolested.

thanks
pecan

[thomas]

what is the fastest way to get a small Linus system and test this sort of thing?

Probably the fastest way would be a Live-CD such as Knoppix oder Kanotix.

I'd recomment Ubuntu. Yiannis talked me into trying it a month ago, and although I was rather not so enthousiastic at first (the alien name and the maintainers' flower power philosophy made me a bit unsure, and the setup program looks crap ) I must admit that I am very positively surprised.

First off, Ubuntu detected all hardware on every PC and notebook which I tried without requiring any kind of user interaction (Gentoo, the "best, most configurable, most advanced" Linux, on the other hand, seems utterly unable to work with the specific Marvell Yukon card in my main PC, no matter what I try). Second, Ubuntu comes on one single CDROM and, apart from downloading a language pack, or specific extras (and updates) that you wish to install, has no other requirements. Third, it installs in 10-12 minutes (compare that to the 40-60 minutes needed by Fedora or SuSE, let's not even talk about Gentoo here), and last, it just works. You turn it on, and it works.

[Pecan]

Thanks thomas

I'll start a Ubuntu google session.

I guess this means you run CodeBlocks with
GTK and gcc on it. Right? Does it come with
a compiler that can handle WX262 and C::B?

Or, what minimal compiler system do you run
to compile and run Codeblocks.

My objective is only to compile,run,test Codeblocks.

thanks
pecan

[mandrav]

I guess this means you run CodeBlocks with
GTK and gcc on it. Right? Does it come with
a compiler that can handle WX262 and C::B?

After installation, run Synaptic (it's in the administration menu) and install the following packages:
libtool, autoconf, automake, gcc-4.0, gcc-3.4, g++4.0, g++-3.4, gcc, g++, make, subversion, libwxgtk-2.6, libwxgtk-2.6-dev, wx-common.

Some names might be different (namely libwx* ones). I 'm writing this by heart and I might have a mistake or two above...

[Pecan]

When I attempt to order a Ubuntu cd I
get the (see attachment) following warning.


http://shipit.ubuntu.com/

Does anyone know if this is ok to accept?

thanks
pecan


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