[wxruby-users] A bug in wxRuby. Segmentation fault in random situations.

[Jacek Nowak]

Hi,

I have a lot of trouble trying to find out what exactly causes the bug.
Generally it seems that the more code I remove from my application,
the more rarely the crash happens.

What I did:

1. First I removed all calls of method "destroy" in dialogs.
Normally my code for displaying dialogs was everywhere like that:
d = SomeDialog.new(self,-1,"title",some_arguments)
d.show_modal
d.destroy

I removed all calls to "destroy" and it _seems_ that now my
application crashes less often (at least it doesn't crash in the place
where it always crashed before). But still it crashes from time to
time.

2. I managed to create a small chunk of code which always crashes just
after closing of MDIChildFrame but it crashes only when gc_stress is
set to 1ms or something near that.
If I set it to 1s or more I'm not able to trigger the crash so I don't
know if this is the issue of GC called too often or the problem with
the code.
I am sending you the code below:

# ============== BEGIN OF CODE:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'wx'

include Wx

class KatalogTowarowFrame < Wx::MDIChildFrame
	def initialize(parent,id,title)
		super(parent,id,title)	
		
		button1 = Button.new(self,-1,"aaaa")
		button2 = Button.new(self,-1,"bbbb")
		
		sizer1 = BoxSizer.new(HORIZONTAL)
		sizer1.add(button1,1,GROW,2)
		sizer1.add(button2,1,GROW,2)
		
		set_sizer(sizer1)
	end
end

class MainFrame < Wx::MDIParentFrame
    def initialize
        super(nil, -1, "Application that crashes", DEFAULT_POSITION,
Wx::Size.new(800,600),
		     DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE | VSCROLL | HSCROLL | FRAME_NO_WINDOW_MENU)
        menu1 = Menu.new
        menu1.append(5000, "test test","test test")
		
        menubar = MenuBar.new()
        menubar.append(menu1,"fdlgfdgfdgddffgd")
		
        set_menu_bar(menubar)

        create_status_bar

        evt_menu(5000) {|event| on_a(event)}
    end
	
	def on_a(event)
		win = KatalogTowarowFrame.new(self,-1,"Kartoteka towarow")
		win.show
		win.set_focus
	end
end

class Aplikacja < Wx::App
	def on_init
		gc_stress
		mainframe = MainFrame.new
		mainframe.set_title("abc")
		mainframe.show()
	end
end

Aplikacja.new.main_loop

# ============== END OF CODE

-- 
Jacek Nowak
jacekwiktor at gmail.com