Minimized Transcript comes up blank

This is actually a problem that dates back to at least D4. It's been
bugging me for some time, but since it's relatively easy to work around,
I haven't bothered to say anything about it till now. It would be nice
though if it could be fixed during this stage of cleaning up D5.

The problem comes up when the Transcript is not open. It can either be
not opened at all, or it can be minimized on the Windows task bar. When
something writes to the Transcript, the button on the task bar flashes
for a few seconds. Click on it, and the Transcript is restored, but it's
totally blank. (Followed by a moment of puzzlement, as I wonder (yet
again - some of us are slow learners <g>) why was it trying to get my
attention?).

The workaround is to move the Transcript's scrollbar, at which point the
text gets displayed. If the Transcript doesn't yet have a scrollbar,
then resizing the window's width will get the text to appear.

It's a bit of a nit, but it's also one that tends to wear on one over
time. I'd try to figure out the fix, but it seems too deep in the land
Windows messages for me to get a handle on it. This is showing up on
Windows 2000 sp2, if that makes a difference.

Thanks,
-Bill

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Bill Dargel            [hidden email]
Shoshana Technologies
100 West Joy Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105  USA

"Bill Dargel" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> This is actually a problem that dates back to at least D4. It's been
> bugging me for some time, but since it's relatively easy to work around,
> I haven't bothered to say anything about it till now. It would be nice
> though if it could be fixed during this stage of cleaning up D5.
>...

Unfortunately Bill this appears to be due to a bug in the RichEdit control.
It remains as one of the oldest outstanding issues in our bug tracking
system, but we haven't been able to find a work around for it so far. I
can't remember, but I don't think it happens on all systems (though it
certainly does on 2K and XP).

Regards

Blair

Blair,

> Unfortunately Bill this appears to be due to a bug in the RichEdit
control.
> It remains as one of the oldest outstanding issues in our bug tracking
> system, but we haven't been able to find a work around for it so far. I
> can't remember, but I don't think it happens on all systems (though it
> certainly does on 2K and XP).

Some more strange Transcript behaviour that has recently been annoying me so
I thought I'd mention it.  It happens to me while using D5 on XP but I don't
remember it happening while using D4.

Open the Transcript and a Workspace. In the Workspace evaluate -

1 to: 100000 do: [:index | Transcript print: index; cr]

Wait until the counter get past 5000 and hit Ctrl-Break.  After a few
seconds (while the keypress is being recognised) the Walkback dialog appears
but it has no information, just the empty dialog. Two things can now happen,
seemingly at random, although the first is much more common

The counting stops and after a pause (~10 seconds or more) the dialog is
populated and the normal walkback continues.
The counting continues, the dialog is never populated and you need to hit
Ctrl-Break again - which sometimes causes more problems.

The reason I think it is Transcript related is that occasionally, and I
can't reproduce it at will, selecting clear from the Transcript context menu
also "disappears"  for a long time, 10 or 20 seconds, before actually
clearing the Transcript.  It seems to me to point at something (else) within
the RichEdit control getting confused?

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FWIW I'm not seeing this under WinNT SP 6a.