On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Troy Monaghen wrote:
> I ran across a bug today that locked vtcl up tighter than a drum. I had to
> kill the process to terminate it. Environment is:
[...]
> I think it also happened to me with vtcl 1.09, but I did not have time to
> try to re-trace my steps and reproduce it when it happened before.
>
> Reproduce it with:
> - Start vtcl
> - Start a new application with File->New
> - Select the grid manger
> - Insert A Frame into the topLevel.
> - Select the packer manager
> - Insert a menubutton into the frame
> - Select the grid manager
> - Insert a button into the frame
>
> - wish should now be locked up and eating cpu cycles like mad.
>
> I don't really know if it is a actually a vtcl bug or a tk/tcl bug. I know
> it is not usually kosher to be mixing geometry managers in the same window
> like this (I did it accidentally)... but it still should not hang it like
> this.
This is a tcl/tk bug. Try the following tcl script. It'll lock up wish.
frame .f -width 150 -height 100
grid .f
menubutton .f.mb -text "menubutton"
pack .f.mb
button .f.b -text "button"
grid .f.b
update idletasks
-stewart-
