I'm not sure yet if this is a bug or not, so I am not yet reporting it to the launchpad. I wanted to find out if this has happened to anyone else recently...

Yesterday, rather unexpectedly, the import image window pane stopped responding to mouse, pen, or trackpad clicks. The buttons still "mouseover" and I can hit escape to back out of the menu, but it otherwise seems unresponsive. Other than that, Inkscape seems to be working just fine.

Using a Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Macbook, Core 2 Duo Intel CPU, 2GB ram, updated x11 to latest, shutdown, restart, about to rebuild from source, nothing seems to work yet. (installed Inkscape via Fink)


Anyone else see this or have ideas? If not, I'll go ahead and submit it to launchpad.


***Correction:

It seems that I did not install Inkscape from source/fink, which means I may have to go mention this to the package distributor... When I attempt to install from source, I get the llvm-gcc not found/no similar package, etc., error. I have the latest version of llvm installed, but it is not recognized. I downloaded the source for an earlier version of llvm with gcc, but I am coming from the mac/pc side, and have not yet figured out how to manually compile it so that fink recognizes it....

I am still interested if anyone else has see this. =D

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It's probably not the same thing as your problem, but I've seen something somewhat similar. It usually happens if I've been using a particular button a lot, for say 30 minutes or more. Suddenly a button...just stops working. If it has a key shortcut, or menu item, those still work as expected, but the button seems to have died. In this case, the button also loses its mouseoverability (?!). It's happened to me several times. Various buttons have been effected, but so far, only 1 per Inkscape session. And restarting Inkscape fixes it.

Oh, and it's been reported in the forum (not sure about Launchpad) and I've experienced as well, that the Trace Bitmap dialog sometimes is blank when it's opened. A restart of Inkscape is required to get it working again.

I doubt these problems are related to your issue, but thought I'd mention on outside chance. Just in case, this is on Windows 7, 64-bit and Inkscape 0.48.1.

nijineko wrote: (…) the import image window pane stopped responding to mouse, pen, or trackpad clicks. The buttons still "mouseover" and I can hit escape to back out of the menu, but it otherwise seems unresponsive (…)

Besides that it is somewhat unclear to me which menu you talk about (menu ≠ dialog window), or which dialog exactly - no, as far as I remember neither the file chooser dialog to select an image to import, nor the import options dialog (embed or link) - new in 0.48 - ever froze with regard to pointer clicks only on my MBP 15" with Mac OS X 10.5.8 (i386) (X11 2.1.6 - XQuartz 2.5.1) and the MBP 13" with OS X 10.7.4 (X11 2.6.3 - XQuartz 2.7.3), neither with the official precompiled packages of Inkscape (0.46-0.48.2), nor with self-compiled stable and development versions (from 0.47pre to current trunk 0.48+devel r11709), nor with stable versions installed via MacPorts (0.47 - 0.48.3.1).

Since you mention 'pen' - possibly a driver conflict between tablet / X11 / GTK+? Or - if the file chooser dialog actually appeared to freeze - an issue with an unmounted disk, or whatever content the last used directory of 'File > Import…' contains and lists first, or … a fink-related problem e.g. with specific dependencies (e.g. GTK+) …, or with the build recipe for the fink package of latest inkscape, or …

nijineko wrote:Using a Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Macbook, Core 2 Duo Intel CPU, 2GB ram, updated x11 to latest, shutdown, restart, about to rebuild from source, nothing seems to work yet. (installed Inkscape via Fink)

Which version of Inkscape do you actually have installed? (I'm not really inspired to research myself what packages/versions current fink might offer for Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Intel) … - never having used fink myself it would take me way too much time to figure out)

nijineko wrote:***Correction:
It seems that I did not install Inkscape from source/fink, which means I may have to go mention this to the package distributor...

Please clarify - 'package distributor' of fink binary packages? Or did you actually download and install an official Inkscape for Mac OS X package from inkscape.org?

nijineko wrote:When I attempt to install from source, I get the llvm-gcc not found/no similar package, etc., error. I have the latest version of llvm installed, but it is not recognized. I downloaded the source for an earlier version of llvm with gcc, but I am coming from the mac/pc side, and have not yet figured out how to manually compile it so that fink recognizes it....

Consider asking on the fink user mailing lists for support (installing a custom version of llvm-gcc on Leopard is not really an Inkscape-related topic - besides that Inkscape (stable and trunk) compiles just fine with Apple's gcc-4.2 from Xcode 3.1.4 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. Forget about llvm/clang - Inkscape doesn't yet support compiling with clang (no matter which version)).