Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Tux Paint 0.9.16rc1 for Windows - Reliably crashes on Win98

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:00:05AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:48:18PM +0100, John Popplewell wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:57:56AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:02:00PM +0100, John Popplewell wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > just got round to testing on Win98 and it crashes horribly :-)
> > > 
> > > Eek!  Thanks! :)
> > Hehe.
> > 
> > Just doing some more testing with help from Lieven. Looks like I forgot
> > to disable the threaded font loading code, which works on my XP and 2K
> > machines but crashes on Windows 98 :-(
> > 
> > I tried updating freetype and adding the fix for SDL_ttf, but that had
> > no effect,
> > 
> 
> Ok, glad you're tracking down the cause. :)
Found it with the help of Lieven (it was doing the same thing on his XP
machine), and (surprisingly) one of my Windows 98 machines!

I needed to switch off the threaded font loader because it doesn't work
reliably on Windows. It would be nice to track down the root-cause
sometime ...

> I noticed a few issues in TP and TPC when testing it yesterday, but they're
> my fault.  I'll make rc2 source releases this evening, if I have time.
OK, I'll hold off until then,

cheers,
John.