Gtk open_dialog

question
#1

Hi all!
Does anyone else have a problem with Gtk.open_dialog?
I’ve submitted an issue, but wanted to reach out to other people that have used this function and hear what their experience is like.
Here’s the gist of my issue:

Out of the following three only number #1 works:

  1. julia> open_dialog("Pick a file")
  2. julia> include("a_file_with_open_dialog_in_it.jl")
  3. $ julia a_file_with_open_dialog_in_it.jl

Pressing Cancel or Open in the other two scenarios doesn’t do anything, the dialog window is just stuck.

#2

It works fine on OS X for me. Maybe try to add some prints in the function to see at which point it gets stuck (probably in run).

#3

Right you are, @jonathanBieler. Line #82 gets stuck.

Curiously, adding a println("something") before that line “fixes the problem” and everything works fine. Does that tell you anything about what’s going on?

#4

Gtk is somehow linked to Julia’s task system so it might have something to do with it. At some point I had a a similar issue on Windows (I just gave up windows support). What happens if you put yield() instead of print ?

This might be the same issue (g_sigatom gets called way more than on OS X):

https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Gtk.jl/issues/181

#5

Putting yield() before line 82 works! I’ll add my report of this behavior to that issue. Thanks a ton for the help!