I have used Gimp 2.4 (beta candidate) on my Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon install and this morning upgraded my Windows XP install from 2.2 to 2.4.

When I access the Script-Fu menu and move the mouse pointer down to select a script, Gimp dies an inglorious death. "gimp-2.4.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

To test, I deleted all the user scripts except one that works on the Ubuntu install. This also causes a crash.

I am not running a script, I am merely highlighting a menu item.

I did not uninstall v2.2, thinking that the installer would detect the existing program and update it or delete it if necessary. Could this be the problem?

Any ideas?

Dave

Hi,

I'll email you the script separately since I do not know if the list takes attachments. But, I would guess that it is not the script because it works well in v2.4 (candidate) in Ubuntu.

It does not appear to be the script, because it doesn't execute. All I do is open the menu and mouse down so as to want to run a script. I realize GIMP is displaying a blurb in the window footer about the script; perhaps there is something crashing the blurb.

Thanks for the help,

Dave

On 10/31/07, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:11 -0500, Dave 77459 wrote:

When I access the Script-Fu menu and move the mouse pointer down to select a script, Gimp dies an inglorious death. " gimp-2.4.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

To test, I deleted all the user scripts except one that works on the Ubuntu install. This also causes a crash.

It would be very useful if you could make this script available so that we can isolate the problem and fix it.

Sven

I had a theory that the blurb building was killing GIMP, so I modified the script to make the description a single line. It now works.

The reasoning for a multi-line description was to give valuable information in the Procedure Browser. Now the information is the single-line blurb, which is practically useless. :((

Why it worked in Ubuntu versus Windows is a mystery I leave to the developers. However, it illustrates why I never released the script to the repository. I cannot test scripts except on my machines and it worked up 'til Windows 2.4. Without broad testing, running a script is a crapshoot. The thought that my script would mysteriously hose someone's GIMP is a huge barrier to wide release.

Dave

On 11/1/07, Dave 77459 wrote:

Hi,

I'll email you the script separately since I do not know if the list takes attachments. But, I would guess that it is not the script because it works well in v2.4 (candidate) in Ubuntu.

It does not appear to be the script, because it doesn't execute. All I do is open the menu and mouse down so as to want to run a script. I realize GIMP is displaying a blurb in the window footer about the script; perhaps there is something crashing the blurb.

Thanks for the help,

Dave

On 10/31/07, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:11 -0500, Dave 77459 wrote:

When I access the Script-Fu menu and move the mouse pointer down to select a script, Gimp dies an inglorious death. " gimp-2.4.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

To test, I deleted all the user scripts except one that works on the Ubuntu install. This also causes a crash.

It would be very useful if you could make this script available so that we can isolate the problem and fix it.

Sven

I will be official and open a bug report. Thanks for your help.

Dave

On 11/2/07, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

*snip*

It is of course unacceptable that a broken script crashes GIMP. That is

why it is absolutely necessary that you open a bug report for this problem on bugzilla.gnome.org and attach the script that causes the problem there. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem yet, but given a bug-report it will eventually be fixed.

Sven