On Wednesday 19 September 2001 17:15, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While working on the Document Dialog I detected a bug which seems to be 
> there for a long time (it's in 1.1.6 too). It's very easy to reproduce:
> 
> Go to the Document Dialog and change the class. The nasty popup pops 
> up. Confirm the question: the class options will be reset to default. 
> Now change the class back to the first one immediately. Neither the 
> popup appears nor will the options be reset (you can see this very easy 
> with article -> book -> article, where the Side is set to One -> Two -> 
> [still] Two).
> 
> I suspect that one of the first lines of the following part of 
> FormDocument.C is to blame. Has someone an idea?
> (The bug is probably not very annoying, since it has not been detected 
> yet. But if it's easy to fix, I'd like to do this).

Shove a few std::cerr << "Got here" << std::endl; statements into the code to 
check the path being followed. Print out a few values to check that they are 
as you'd expect. Not rocket science, but you're looking for a flaw in the 
logic so you don't need to be subtle.

A



> 
> Thanks,
> Jürgen
> 
> 
> 
> void FormDocument::CheckChoiceClass(FL_OBJECT * ob, long)
> {
>     if (!ob)
>       ob = class_->choice_doc_class;
> 
>     lv_->prohibitInput();
> 
>     unsigned int tc = combo_doc_class->get() - 1;
>     if (textclasslist.Load(tc)) {
>           // we use a copy of the bufferparams because we do not
>           // want to modify them yet.
>           BufferParams params = lv_->buffer()->params;
> 
>           if (params.textclass != tc
>               && AskQuestion(_("Should I set some parameters to"),
>                              _("the defaults of this document class?"))) {
>           params.textclass = tc;
>           params.useClassDefaults();
>           UpdateLayoutDocument(params);
>       }
> 
> 

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