RC2: optimizer windows hide each other

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

v2011.2.0 on Windows Vista: when optimizing, first a Strategy 1 window opens, then a strategy 2 window opens over strategy 1 but without closing strategy 1, then the confirmation dialog opens, but most of the times under the first two windows, almost hidden by them. IIRC, in previous versions, everything happened inside a unique window, which was much more convenient IMO.

[Frederic Da Vitoria (davitofrg)]

Update: the optimizer don't always hide the confirmation window.

Suggestion: close the optimizer windows before asking for confirmation. I believe the optimizer windows aren't needed any more since the results are displayed in the confirmation window.

[Yuv (yuv)]

Thanks for the report.

2011.2.0 does not exist yet, you have probably tested a release candidate (RC). Being careful and specific about the version used is very important. In recent versions, go to the Help menu About Hugin in the System tab and copy all the info from that window, thanks. In older versions, report the full string displayed in the Help menu under the image. That should include a "built by" line.

Can you try to reproduce this behavior with an older, official version from https://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/ ?

Try 2011.0.0 first.

AFAIK nothing has changed in codebase of Hugin itself regarding windows handling. It is possible that the executable you are using has been built against a different/newer version of wxWidgets. We'll have to ask the builder, hence the importance to know the exact version/build that you are using.

I am setting this report's status to incomplete to signal that a request for information is pending. when you update the requested information, please set the status back to new to attract attention. you can do so hitting the yellow button next to the current status.

[Frederic Da Vitoria (davitofrg)]

RC2 indeed, I was fooled by what Hugin displays in the "About" window. I'm quite convinced this has appeared in RC2, I have been using Hugin intensively in the last month and I couldn't have missed this. I just counted 45 different projects since 2011/06/09 (and most of them needed more than one optimization run). I downloaded v2011.0 on 2011/06/08 and I must have installed it immediately.

...Ok, it would be stupid to miss this. I just checked. First the screen grab for 2011.0 taken during the brief moment when the strategy window is visible. This windows is automatically closed by Hugin when the confirmation dialog opens.

[Frederic Da Vitoria (davitofrg)]

... and the screen grab for 2011.2 RC2. You'll notice the 3 windows, Strategy 2 in the forefront, Strategy 1 just behind it and the confirmation dialog almost invisible behind them.

[Yuv (yuv)]

Thank you for the further detail. This is likely caused by the new SDK used to build RC2.

[tmodes (tmodes)]

Trying to fix in default branch.