[ ayttm-Bugs-872852 ] GUI problems

Bugs item #872852, was opened at 2004-01-08 11:28
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Category: User Interface
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Works For Me
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Adam Wolfe Gordon (penguinman)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: GUI problems

Initial Comment:
Two problems:

1) The more annoying one.  Often, if I have a chat
window already open and I get a new message, the chat
window goes blank and the new tab doesn't show up. 
This is a problem, since I don't see the new person's
first message to me.  Also happens sometimes when I
open a new chat with a second person with one open.

2) Less annoying, but still dumb.  Sometimes when I
have the main window minimized or behind another window
and I bring it back up to the front, the entire box
where the contacts should be is blank.  When I click in
it, I can see each contact I click on, but it's still
annoying.

I'd upload a screenshot, but I can't get it to do it
when I try ;-).

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>Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2010-10-03 17:04

Message:
The connection layer has been reimplemented since the last comment and this
should have been fixed by the change. Please open a new bug report if
you're still able to reproduce this.

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2009-09-21 16:06

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Is anyone still able to reproduce this?

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2007-10-28 04:20

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I have a hunch that this is probably due to the deprecated gdk_input_add()
that we use for asynchronous i/o. I did a search on it on google and it
looks like the function has been causing a few problems with hangups,
especially on slow connections. We'll probably need to re-implement using
GIOChannels and g_io_add_watch().

Having said that, almost 2-3 hours on jabber.com as well as jabber.org and
no hang-ups yet.

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Comment By: Philip S Tellis (bluesmoon)
Date: 2007-10-15 14:38

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jabber.org

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2007-10-15 01:41

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Can you tell me what server you were able to reproduce this bug on? I've
been on the gmail server for the past 3 hours but haven't had the main
window or chat window going white so far.

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Comment By: Philip S Tellis (bluesmoon)
Date: 2007-10-14 01:42

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just FYI, the main window freeze is caused by the jabber connection
closing and ayttm not detecting it. 
http://community.livejournal.com/ayttm/5064.html is a workaround for the
problem.  Copy the script at the end into a text file called
unfreeze-ayttm.sh and give it execute permissions.  If ayttm freezes again,
just run the script...

Note that you'll need gdb installed for the script to work.

Siddhesh, any chance of getting this fixed in code?  I don't know of a
suitable fix.

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Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2007-10-14 01:32

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Does this problem still occur? 
Much has happened since this submission; especially a GUI port to gtk2,
which I think may have solved this problem.

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Comment By: Fatman (fatman_uk)
Date: 2004-07-18 16:12

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elh:

I'm sending the code now. Hope you can use it. :)

I sent it to the address I have in my address book. Did you
receive it?

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Comment By: Edward L. Haletky (elh)
Date: 2004-07-14 18:25

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Please send me the code. Any code donations are worth while.

Please also send me your prefs file. I noticed some of this as 
well, and when 'Chat completion' or spell checking is enabled 
it will spin out of control as well.



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Comment By: Edward L. Haletky (elh)
Date: 2004-07-14 18:06

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Please send me the code. Any code donations are worth while.

Please also send me your prefs file. I noticed some of this as 
well, and when 'Chat completion' or spell checking is enabled 
it will spin out of control as well.



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Comment By: Fatman (fatman_uk)
Date: 2004-07-14 17:50

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I get problem #2 myself. Ayttm fails to redraw when I've had
it minimised for some time and then try to restore the
window. I haven't noticed any abnormal CPU behaviour.
<p>
Workaround: maximise and then restore.
<p>
ps. How about a "minimise to tray" function? I can send you
the code if necessary. Wrong place for suggestions I know
but it seemed "on-topic". :P

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Comment By: Adam Wolfe Gordon (penguinman)
Date: 2004-01-24 00:54

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I just checked the CPU usage when the main window froze up,
it was at 92.7%.  Definetely something wrong with that I
think.  A program like AYTTM shouldn't really need much CPU
at all.

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Comment By: Adam Wolfe Gordon (penguinman)
Date: 2004-01-13 11:18

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I haven't remembered to check top when it actually does
this, however just taking a look at top every so often, it
seems that ayttm is consistently using more than its share
of CPU even when it's just idling.  It's ranging from 25% to
about 75% when I don't even have a chat window open.  Seems
to me there's something wrong here.

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Comment By: Philip S Tellis (bluesmoon)
Date: 2004-01-08 13:56

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the next time this happens, could you run top and check how
much CPU ayttm is using?

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