[wxWorkshop-dev] Another week of Progress....Sept. 17, 2005

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Progress still continues on wxWorkshop although some authors are still 
declaring the project extinct (Latest alert I got was from this 
article:  
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=37317&subsectionid=379).  
I will love to see the reactions when we burst forward with another 
release, whenever that will be.  Realistically, I'm thinking December 
where at least the basic functions have been restored, and, surely, 
wxWidget-2.6.2 will have been released by then.  Meanwhile there are 
some interesting hurdles to overcome.

I have tracked down the area of a problem that I was having with the 
wxFileDialog Class.  (This bug is only in wxGTK) This bug is listed on 
wxWidgets Bug  Tracker #1287999 where the normal gtk++ wxFileDialog 
crashes in the ShowModal Function when it is passing through gnome-vfs 
to gtk+.  Apparently it doesn't happen on all Linux distributions, but I 
know of 2 machines under different owners that have the problem, both 
are Gentoo Linux machines.  For now, I am working with a workaround from 
Julian Smart that allows me to work with a Generic File Open Dialog Box 
(also mentioned in that bug report).  I will continue tracking that 
problem down, but it is a difficult one since it eludes the gdb debugger 
(in fact, works under the debugger but not during normal operations).  I 
will be spending a lot of time this coming week trying to find the 
problem (via printfs apparently) in tracing the program flow between 
wxWorkshop<>gnome-vfs<>gtk+.  I wish I knew when I'll be able to fix 
this problem.

Meanwhile I have gone forward with more of the code development on 
wxWorkshop.  I've cleared up minor bugs, (including fixing the icons & 
Splash Screen to say wxWidgets instead of wxWindows),etc.  I'm looking 
at some file parsing errors which I'm sure are related to my conversion 
of wxStringLists to wxArrayStrings, so I will be working with that bug, 
as well as looking to getting the Editor up & running again.

I heard briefly from George was mentioned about how useful it would be 
to make the startup config file in the xml format, something that I will 
definitely be looking into.  I haven't heard anything from Tod at all 
this week so I assume he has been extremely busy.

BTW, wxWorkshop is not dead, and I sent an E-mail to pcplus.co.uk to let 
them know.  The automated response was interesting:  "I'm out sunning 
myself on the beaches of Athens at the behest of Acer."

The wxWorkshop work continues on....stay tuned. 

--James