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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50396] documentation tab in GUI empty
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Rik |
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50396] documentation tab in GUI empty |
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Sat, 25 Feb 2017 15:48:04 -0500 (EST) |
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Follow-up Comment #3, bug #50396 (project octave):
I added some print statements and from what I can determine this is an order
of execution issue (race condition). The GUI browser for the documentation
uses the global variable Vinfo_file which contains the full-path name of the
file to use. The code for this is in libgui/src/qtinfo/webinfo.cc. The
Octave interpreter sets this global variable in set_info_file_name() which in
turn is called by the general initialization function install_defaults().
The problem seems to be the multi-threaded nature of the GUI with one thread
for the actual GUI and another thread for the Octave interpreter. When I run
the GUI the print statements reveal that the GUI is initializing itself and
grabbing the value of Vinfo_file before the Octave interpreter has called
install_defaults(). This is likely to be a generic problem because there are
other global variables that the GUI uses which reside in the Octave
interpreter.
I've added jwe to the CC list since he understands the start-up sequence,
including the fork and exec model, better than I do.
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