GCA unresponsive when last character closed

[otghand]

Anyone else experience this? If I close the last open character GCA goes unresponsive. I can not quit it or load a new character. GCA shows as owning pretty much a whole processor, but not doing anything.

[Armin]

I seem to remember someone else had that problem in the past. I don't recall if anything was found to fix it for them, but it's not a problem that I've been able to reproduce.

[otghand]

Any useful logging I could send you? I can reproduce the error at will.

[Armin]

Originally Posted by otghand

Any useful logging I could send you? I can reproduce the error at will.

If there's a particular sequence of steps or something you have to take in order to cause the problem, that would be useful*. But there's not really anything GCA logs that would be useful to me.

Does the problem still exist if you just close GCA, and let it close all the characters, rather than trying to close the last character yourself?

Armin

* Since I could tell you "don't do that".

[otghand]

Originally Posted by Armin

If there's a particular sequence of steps or something you have to take in order to cause the problem, that would be useful*.

Open GCA.
Load data set.
Load Character (or create new character] and do work.
Save character.
Close character.
Enjoy cool, refreshing freeze. ;^)

Originally Posted by Armin

But there's not really anything GCA logs that would be useful to me.

Does the problem still exist if you just close GCA, and let it close all the characters, rather than trying to close the last character yourself?

No, only when I close the last character.

The reason I want to do that is to be able to close a character, load a new data set, then open a character using that data set. Not a huge biggie as there are work arounds, but odd enough that I wanted to mention it.

[Armin]

Originally Posted by otghand

Open GCA.
Load data set.
Load Character (or create new character] and do work.
Save character.
Close character.
Enjoy cool, refreshing freeze. ;^)

I have done this exact procedure many, many times. Like you, I tend to close the current character before taking whatever the next step is. As I mentioned, this isn't something that I've been able to reproduce, and I'm clueless as to what causes it.

Originally Posted by otghand

No, only when I close the last character.

The reason I want to do that is to be able to close a character, load a new data set, then open a character using that data set. Not a huge biggie as there are work arounds, but odd enough that I wanted to mention it.

I understand. I can't really help with this issue right now, but the next version of GCA is rewritten on a newer platform, so it shouldn't have this problem any more*. Of course, I also have no idea when it might be ready....

I'm sorry you're having this trouble. I appreciate you bearing with us until the next version can be made available.

Armin

* Also, the next version allows each character to have their own library (data set) loaded, so you can work on different characters with completely different libraries at the same time.