Re: Problem in MSWindows 0.7.6... More info

[Harry Thijssen]

The GTK version could be the problem. 

After my laptop on which I build PSPP for MSWindows died, I had to reinstall the Mingw32 toolchain. So I have a new gtk version in it. But I have no clue why it works on some installations and not on another installation. Might it be that the problem is another program using .recently-used.xbel on your computer too?

To make things worst:  the newly build toolchain is very unpredictable. It might work, but if I follow the same procedure again it might not work. And I can't find a clue about this either.

BTW: I checked the trick below and it seems to work on an installation which had no problems before. The generic ( Windows7, WindowsVista and WindowsXP) of doing this is:
    del %userprofile%\.recently-used.xbel
      mkdir %userprofile%\.recently-used.xbel

Have fun

2010/11/13 John Darrington <address@hidden>

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 03:22:48PM +0100, Harry Thijssen wrote:
    Hi John (this answer on pspp-dev)

    Thanks for the research. I see on the internet as a solution:
     del C:\USERS\%USER%\.recently-used.xbel
     mkdir C:\USERS\%USER%\.recently-used.xbel

    Does that function or is there another nasty error back?

I would try it and see.  It'll mean that the recently used files
menu will always be empty (for any gtk app).

Doing a bit of web searching, I'm finding similar reports for other
projects, and not only under Windows.  I have a nasty feeling that
this is a bug in Gtk+ which is going to bit us.

Has anyone built pspp on GNU/Linux against Gtk+-2.22 so that we can
confirm this?

J'

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