Nightly PCBNEW : Menu has a lot of problems to appear

[Michele Giorato]

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the file menu has a lot of problems to appear, sometimes it appears after a 'coffee break' , sometimes it has scroll widgets, sometimes it crashes everything ...

By now this anomalous behavior of the various main drop-downs menu is occurring on the whole kicad suite, is it possible that I only find it?

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

Please copy the full version information from About KiCad -> Copy Version Info.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

Do you see any gtk asserts if you run it from the commandline when this happens?

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Michele, is this a build you made yourself? Someone else (Dino perhaps?) was experiencing similar issues and it turned out to be some build dependency that was off.

@Devs, anyone else remember particulars? Does this look like it might be related?

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

I see similar issues with the menus. I also saw that exact issue where it shows as in his screenshots (normal width of the menu, but empty and with top and bottom scroll thingies).

Right now the issue I am trying to track down is where the menu sizing is all wrong and I see gtk asserts.

(eeschema:12363): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 23:23:59.098: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

See attached screenshot.

It is especially the View menu (and maybe Place) that is problematic. If I hover to some other menus it suddenly starts to become good, meaning icons and menu text appear properly.

Git bisect tells me this started in:
commit ef5c69167a493683c81d44cf752fc141dcf174de
Date: Mon May 13 21:42:40 2019 +0100

    Start moving some LibEdit and SchEdit menubar menus to actions.

    Also includes a bunch of bug fixes that got intermingled.

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[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Hmm... sounds like a GTK-specific issue (or at least a non-OSX issue).

Anyone seeing it on MSW?

[Michele Giorato (mr-miky64)]

@jeyjey

I also tried the nightly windows version and it doesn't present the problems with the menus mentioned above.
I don't know if it is exactly the same as the Fedora nightly but at most it deviates from 1 day.

As for the version I use is the one taken from Copr, I don't compile it even if in the past I did it.

Application: LibEdit
Version: 6.0.0-unknown-r15909-4842c735, debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.8.7/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.38.0
Platform: Linux 5.1.5-300.fc30.x86_64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.69.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.64.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.1.1 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Michele Giorato (mr-miky64)]

@Nick I haven't tried from the command line, but I can do it ...

[Michele Giorato (mr-miky64)]

@Nick

you described exactly what happens to me too.
Inexplicably, if the application doesn't crash first, after a while the menus look fine ...
It seems that at the first appearance there is no idea about the size of the drop-down menu and then acting on the scroll widget in any way it can calculate it.

[Michele Giorato (mr-miky64)]

@nick

I started pcbnew directly and ONLY flew over the main menu with the mouse pointer ....

[michele@fx-8350-fc29 ~]$ pcbnew
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'PNG file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'JPEG file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'TIFF file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'GIF file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'PNM file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'PCX file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'IFF file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'Windows icon file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'Windows cursor file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'Windows animated cursor file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'TGA file'
13:11:59: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'XPM file'

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5995): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:12:03.400: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0'...

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

I'm about to push some changes which will instantiate a default menu for each menu when it is built. I don't have GTK, so I have no idea if it will fix these menu issues, but it's worth a try....

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Changes in....

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

It looks like the changes in 45a9544726fd6858a03ee4914ea60e0e3db7591a do fixe the wonky menu issue and the 3d-viewer starts properly via alt+3.

[Michele Giorato (mr-miky64)]

now it seems to work without problems, the menus appear immediately, correct and without errors

[Michele Giorato (mr-miky64)]

Speaking too soon, there are problems with submenus but I think it's just a matter of fixing how it was done in the main menus

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.455: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.455: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.455: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.804: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.804: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.805: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.805: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.805: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.805: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

(pcbnew:5810): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 00:50:21.805: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' failed

Application: Pcbnew
Version: 6.0.0-unknown-r15960-cbea5149, debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.8.7/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.38.0
Platform: Linux 5.1.5-300.fc30.x86_64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.69.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.64.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.1.1 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON