File>Open_Recent is not, exactly

dick_freebird

I've been fighting this "silent fail" on the Windows version and
I keep getting kicked out when placing Rulers with a whole lot
of mouse-wheel dithering in/out.

So I keep getting kicked out of what I'm working on and it
seems that "opened recently" is not exactly what happens -
until the file is -saved- it will not appear in the "recent" list.

RawrRanger

Hi dick_freebird,

I do encounter application crash some time, but mostly the error is caused by my macro, rarely caused by basic editing.

If Klayout experience force quit caused crash, the setting you apply during the session including the "open revent" list will be lost.

To me this seems like the config is saved while the app is about to close "normally" to prevent user apply a setting that triggers crash.

Without doing so the bad setting might makes the app starts right into a crash, which I think is a reasonable approach.

In my case, If such crash is expected during macro debuging, this is what I will do:
1) setup everything including load the gds
2) save everything
3) close the app to ensure the changes I made and "recent opened" is write to hard drive

Matthias

@dick_freebird I guess you like to have some "auto save" feature.

There was a discussion about this here: https://www.klayout.de/forum/discussion/comment/9350#Comment_9350. There is a small Python script implementing auto-save.

I tried to reproduce the problem myself, but without success. And I am users rulers a lot - as well as other users do. I still think it's some graphics driver thing, but I can't say how to fix it. Is there some compatibility mode maybe that helps?

Matthias