[Geany-Devel] Blank completion popups on Windows

[Lex Trotman]

On 15 April 2015 at 05:54, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On 14/04/15 18:45, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
>> On 14.4.2015 г. 02:00, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>> On 14 April 2015 at 07:32, Colomban
>>> Wendling<lists.ban at herbesfolles.org>  wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I don't use my Windows VM very often, but I realized today that the
>>>> completion popups were broken there during the 1.25 cycle [1].
>>>>
>>>> Could everyone using a development version of Geany under Windows tell
>>>> me whether it works for them or not, and their Windows and GTK versions?
>>>> I myself tried on XP SP3 with GTK 2.24.10.
>
> Windows 7 with GTK 2.24.10.
> Nick has the same problem, we talked about this in
> http://lists.geany.org/devel/2015-January/009257.html.
>
> Your patch works for me. I personally would not mind the minimal size
> increase. I completely agree it's better than an empty popup :).
>
> What bothers me more is that for some reason this problem doesn't occur
> with the cross-compiled nightly binaries.
> This is what we noticed in the above mentioned thread already, I just
> re-tested it to get sure.
> Though I have not yet an idea what could cause the different behaviour
> by the different builds :(.
>
>
>>> XP is no longer supported
>>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows/end-support-help so it
>>> doesn't matter.
>>
>> That was heavy. :) Should we declare half of the Linux distributions
>> unsupported, because they never had any official support in the first
>> place? Or discard Windows 8.x, since it's less popular than XP? [1]
>
> Stop this, please. Windows XP is unrelated in this case because this
> also happens on Windows 7 which is supported.
>

Was just trying to suggest that @b4n upgrade his VM :)


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> Enrico
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