Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [fwd] Re: [SDL] Tux Paint rebooting WinXP!?

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:52:19PM +0100, John Popplewell wrote:
> Be careful though. This version of Tux Paint has an annoying bug that
> forces you to wait 30s between runs. It returns without running,
> leaving a text file 'stdout.txt' containing:
> 
> You're already running a copy of Tux Paint!
> 
> even when you aren't(!)

Heh, yeah, that was my stupid misimplementation.
It's fixed in CVS (to be 0.9.15).

IIRC, though, you can send a command-line option to make it ignore the
lock file (--nolockfile).  I'm PRETTY sure that was available in 0.9.14.


> I checked that the environment variable trick works on XP Pro using the
> 'testvidinfo' program, which is part of the SDL source distribution,

Nice, thanks! :)

-bill!
(gonna pass this on to SDL list, too)