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Scripting error during installation of MK version 3.9 on Windows XP netbook #229

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
See attached screenshot.

NB. Not everyone's PC has an email client installed. My netbook doesn't.
This means that your assumptions about reporting errors are unwarranted.
On my netbook, I only ever use webmail.

NB. The previously installed version of MK (on the netbook) was 3.5

David

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DFH...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2014 at 10:07

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
On our two other PCs (Win7), I will leave version 3.6 installed until this 
issue is fixed.

NB. I missed downloading versions 3.7 and 3.8 from the IBT site, if they were 
ever there. Ordinary Windows installation .EXE files (past & present) are not 
listed in the deprecated downloads here in the code pages.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2014 at 9:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
xulsword 3.10+ no longer uses email to submit problem reports. Rather it 
reports to a specific URL and so it no longer requires that an email client be 
configured.

Various xulsword versions are now available as "MK" from IBT, see 
http://ibt.org.ru/ftpmirror/pub/xulsword.

Not all versions are, or will be available. Some versions are development only 
with no major public release for instance.

The error you reported above appears to be a UI locale related problem 
(unfortunately the line number is cut off). Switching to English before 
upgrading might possibly help. But I would like to know more about your 
problem...

Original comment by gpl.prog...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2014 at 6:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Good thinking about problem reporting. That's how many other programs behave.

Q. How do I obtain xulsword version 3.10 (.EXE) to try on my WinXP Notebook?

cf. Only the Firefox XPI is listed in 
http://ibt.org.ru/ftpmirror/pub/xulsword/MK-3.10/

btw. I was already using English as the UI language.
What did you expect? I cannot read Russian.

NB. The error message was indeed longer than the width of the popup dialog.
How might I find out what was truncated?

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2014 at 9:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Could not de-truncate the error message, nor can the text within the dialog 
panel be selected.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2014 at 5:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Attached screenshot after dismissing the error dialog.

Windows XP Home Edition (SP3 fully patched) on Compaq Mini Netbook CQ10-101SA.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2014 at 8:03

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Also observe the book selector seems to be too low down the LHS.

This was before installing any module.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2014 at 8:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
You wrote, "Maybe you could tell me what you were doing when the error window 
popped up. Does it still do this? Or is everything working fine now? "

A. Occured after installation completes. Two email dialogs had to be dismissed 
too!
B. Occurs again (always) just after opening the program.

Also observed in the taskbar a "temporarily hidden window".
cf. The taskbar item for the main window has no label.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2014 at 8:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I can't think of much more to gather as evidence.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2014 at 8:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I would like to test version 3.10 in which there's no attempt to report errors 
by email.
If that does NOT generate the truncated error message, surely that would be a 
vital clue?

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2014 at 8:12

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
First the good news. I uninstalled MK, then installed version 3.1 (EXE) on my 
Netbook. There was no error message dialog this time. That's a relief. Must be 
a clue to what's going on.

Remember, my Netbook does not have an email client installed or configured. I 
wanted to avoid inadvertently downloading from POP3 to my Netbook. On my other 
PC, I use Thunderbird.

Now the neutral news: There was still in the Taskbar an item called 
"xulsword-temporary-hidden-folder". Closing this did not cause any new issue. 
Yet it's something I don't see in Windows 7.

Now the bad news: Clicking F2 or using the File Menu. No response. No attempt 
to look for modules from the Internet. With no modules installed, changing the 
number of Windows from 3 to 2 or 1 did not do anything. Always 3 windows.

Finally, the same poor layout of the passage selector. The top of the selector 
was part way down the left hand side. I already sent you a screenshot from 
version 3.9. Let me know if you need it from version 3.10

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2014 at 3:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Correction to typo: "then installed version 3.10"

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2014 at 3:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Further discussions continued by private email.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2014 at 10:16