Re: pgAdmin 1.8.x hangs while tries to load XRC resources

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Antonello Biancalana
<promindsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Antonello Biancalana
>> <promindsd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Not offhand. Does the wxWidgets XRC sample work?
>
> Thank you for your reply and your help. Your suggestion was of terrific help
> to me. I compiled and run the wxWidgets XRC sample and it worked but it
> complained about some missing files (whereas pgadmin did not).
> The XRC sample complained about the following missing files in my system:
>
> usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.adobe.pdx.desktop
> usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml.desktop
> usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.adobe.xfdf.desktop
> usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.fdf.desktop
>
> which actually resulted to be missing links belonging to an old installation
> of Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. I deleted these missing links and now pgAdmin
> works.
> I hope this can help other pgAdmin users. Maybe it would be nice if pgAdmin
> would warn the user in case of these missing files like wxWidgtes XRC sample
> does.

Oh wow - I have no idea why those should break wxWidgets, but I wonder
if building wxWidgets with --enable-mimetype=no would have made any
difference.

Anyway, glad it's working now.

>
> Thank you very much indeed Dave for your support and help!

You're welcome.

-- 
Dave Page
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