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IDE Toolbar Buttons Unresponsive

Posted: 1 Aug 2016 13:53
by Harrison Pratt
From time to time, the [C] [B] [E] buttons on the IDE toolbar do not invoke the Compile, Build or Execute functions. However, if I use the pull-down menu the IDE will compile, build or execute. I have not been able to correlate this with any background processes so far.

Posted: 5 Aug 2016 10:02
by Thomas Linder Puls
I believe that everybody at our site uses the keyboard for building, so such a problem may be undetected here.

In any case we have not heard about it before, and we don't know how to reproduce the problem. So I think we need more info to address the problem.

Posted: 5 Aug 2016 10:59
by Harrison Pratt
I will try to identify what initiates this behavior in the IDE and any concurrent processes that might be causing this. It's intermittent, so it may take me a while to better document this.

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 16:02
by Vitaly Markov
The described problem was and is for VIP5.x (Win XP) and VIP7.x (Win 10).
I could not define the reason of a problem within last ~17 years .
The Turbo Prolog 2.x had no such problem :)

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 23:34
by Paul Cerkez
Ah, Yes, good old Turbo Prolog 2.0 Where I had my first introduction to Prolog. :-)

P.

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 12:08
by Harrison Pratt
The problem is related to the dialog editor (and possibly other resource editors). If you have a dialog editor open the toolbar buttons are sometimes unresponsive, but not grayed out. I plan to further characterize this behavior shortly.

Yup, I liked Turbo Prolog, too. Text window applications were much faster than MS Windows applications with the hardware we had then.

Re: IDE Toolbar Buttons Unresponsive

Posted: 1 Nov 2018 14:38
by Harrison Pratt
FYI -- This still happens with VIP 8 -- if I click on the desktop or another application then the IDE toolbar buttons become responsive.