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250 bug slpaa and ubuntu device crashes on toolbar selection #257

Closed stannam closed 7 months ago

stannam commented 8 months ago

Although clicking on the tool bar does not crash the program on my end, I did find that two options triggered errors independently: 1. Settings > Preferences... and 2. Location > Define locations... This PR addresses both.

@brdiep113 Brian could you kindly check if the issues have been resolved and if the program no longer crashes?

1. Settings > Preferences...

This is from a known issue where the two settings parameters entryid_digits and sig_figs are incorrectly typed as str instead of int on Ubuntu.

So the solution was simple: explicitly type sig_figs and entryid_digits as int from the very beginning.

2. Location > Define locations...

The location definer dialog has tabs that can be closed by clicking Ⓧ, which appear on the left or right side of the tab. The right-most tab is 'Add new tab' and we don't want the Ⓧ button for this tab. So we previously deleted the button. However, since Ⓧ appears on different location by OS (e.g., right-hand side on Win, and left side on macOS), I previously wrote a conditional that locates and deletes this Ⓧ differently depending on the OS (87c9bd800bf60d79df3c0df78f432a0d15b81241). There, I grouped Linux (including Ubuntu) with macOS to expect Ⓧ on the left side of a tab, but the problem was that the Ⓧ location is not fixed on Linux.

This PR takes a different approach. Rather than deleting Ⓧ from 'Add new tab', the program now ignores the input when the user clicks (x) on the 'New Location' tab.

stannam commented 7 months ago

Interesting.. I'll double check with a new environment just to make sure again that the issue is not replicable. I haven't used Windows Subsystem for Linux and it is the right moment to do it.

Edit: Clicking on the toolbar did not crash in another Linux distro. So I'll just go ahead and merge it into main.

I installed Debian using wsl --install Debian and ran the program from the source code. All toolbar options seem to work, although the graphics sometimes gets distorted, as shown below.

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Windows Subsystem for Linux started supporting GUI apps just about a week ago, so no surprise. This seems to happen only for a background window. Also, we don't expect anyone to use the program on WSL.

Thanks Brian and Kaili for having a look at this.