Survex 1.1.6 "report to authors" bug

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:48:08AM +0000, Andy Waddington wrote:
> If you are popping up a "report to authors" message, it implies you
> have trapped the error in your own code.

Yes, but in this case all we know is that there was a segmentation
fault (caused by wx trying to dereference a bad pointer).

> Is there some way to find
> what particular error is causing the problem and use a "don't
> bother to report to authors, known bug outside our control", message
> instead ?

We could assume that any segmentation fault caused during the process
of trying to create the opengl window wasn't a problem (by setting a
flag while we're trying to do that), but that risks ignoring other
actual problems in that code.  It's also probably more work than fixing
the bug in wx, which would benefit other projects too.

> Alternatively, could you do some tests at start up which would
> identify that this problem was bound to occur later and warn the
> user, rather than asking her to report to the authors ?

Not easily it appears.

Cheers,
    Olly