[erlang-bugs] reltool gui and wxWidgets 2.9

[Tuncer Ayaz]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Tuncer Ayaz wrote:
> Given that current wxErlang builds and wx:demo/0 works successfully
> with wxWidgets 2.9 Gtk+ 2.x, I did assume it's supposed to generally
> work. I did encounter some oddities though when I tried to start the
> reltool GUI via reltool:start/0.
>
> Basically, starting a fresh node and running reltool:start() doesn't
> work for me. The only way to successfully spawn it with wxErlang built
> against wxWidgets 2.9 is as follows:
>
> -- call reltool:debug() instead of reltool:start():
>    1> reltool:debug().
>
> -- call reltool:start() after having spawned another wxErlang GUI first:
>    1> observer:start().
>    ok
>    2> reltool:start().
>    {ok,<0.48.0>}
>
> -- dbg trace calls to reltool:* and reltool:start_link/1:
>    3> reltool:start().
>    (<0.31.0>) call reltool:start()
>    (<0.31.0>) call reltool:start([])
>    (<0.31.0>) call reltool:start_link([])
>    (<0.31.0>) call reltool_sys_win:start_link([])
>    {ok,<0.38.0>}
>    (<0.31.0>) returned from reltool_sys_win:start_link/1 -> {ok,<0.38.0>}
>    4> (<0.31.0>) returned from reltool:start_link/1 -> {ok,<0.38.0>}
>    (<0.31.0>) returned from reltool:start/1 -> {ok,<0.38.0>}
>    (<0.31.0>) returned from reltool:start/0 -> {ok,<0.38.0>}
>
> Other interesting wxWidgets 2.9 observations:
>
> -- debugger:simple(reltool, start, []) segfault:
>    1> debugger:quick(reltool, start, []).
>    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> -- reltool:debug/0 next/continue segfault:
>    1> debugger:quick(reltool, debug, []).
>    ;; it spawns successfully but segfaults when you press next/continue
>    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> -- generally speaking the wxWidgets 2.9 version seems to take longer
>    to display the initial window.
>
> To be clear, I haven't seen any of the above issues with wxErlang
> built against wxWidgets 2.8.
>
> Is wxWidgets 2.9 support still experimental and are these errors
> unsurprising?

With wxWidgets 3.0 RC2 and wxErlang from R16B02 the GUI start issues
seem to be resolved.

New issues:

  * New Gtk failed assertions:
    Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion
    'height >= -1' failed
  * 'bad parameters to zlib' when loading erlang_observer.png
    upon observer:start(). wxWidgets 3.0 RC2 has been compiled
    with system zlib and libpng.
    Error log:
    bad parameters to zlib
    Couldn't load a PNG image - file is corrupted or not enough memory.
    Failed to load image from file "...rver-1.3.1.1/priv/erlang_observer.png"

    Same issue with debugger:quick/3 failing to load erlang_bug.png.
    The files are there and look OK.