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➜ MUSHclient hangs when configuration dialog is opened
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MUSHclient hangs when configuration dialog is opened
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| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
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| Wed 06 Nov 2019 12:12 AM (UTC) Amended on Wed 06 Nov 2019 07:39 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| From time to time I find that MUSHclient will just hang and have to be force-quit for no obvious reason, after opening the world configuration dialog and looking at something like triggers, timers or aliases. This is using a world file that has worked perfectly in the past.
The reason appears to be that it happens when "unusual" data is on the Clipboard. I particularly notice this when using VirtualBox to run MUSHclient, and there is a problem with sharing the clipboard with the host operating system.
To cure this, I suggest putting something valid on the clipboard, such as a word of text. In other words, if the client hangs, before starting it again go to a text editor, web browser, email program, or anything that supports text, and copy a word (anything) onto the clipboard.
This should clear the unusual data that is confusing the client, and you can then use it normally.
Alternatively, and a little more proactively, you could force good data onto the clipboard by running a script that does something like this when the client opens:
SetClipboard ("hello, world")
You can make this happen from the Scripting configuration tab, by putting a function there for World Events -> Open, and put a function into a script file, eg.
function OnWorldOpen ()
SetClipboard ("hello, world")
end -- OnWorldOpen
Then put "OnWorldOpen" into the World Events configuration, as described above.
If you are not having problems, then you can ignore these suggestions, but every now and then I find this happens, and also find that I forget the reason for it. :) |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #1 on Wed 06 Nov 2019 12:27 AM (UTC) |
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| The reason why this particularly happens when looking at the world configuration is that the code checks the clipboard for things like:
<triggers> ... </triggers>
If found it enables the "Paste" button.
This problem also appears in other places where the client checks the clipboard (for example, the colour picker). |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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