2.0b7 crashes when selecting "Show Sketch Folder" with Windows 7

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Original author: dil...@gmail.com (December 14, 2012 00:40:28)

As far as I can tell, this is an issue with 2.0b7 since I didn't encounter it with 2.0b6.

1. In any sketch, choose "Show Sketch Folder" from the menu.
2. Processing freezes and must be force-quit.

I'm using the Windows 32-bit build on Windows 7 64-bit. Tried it with the 64-bit build and had the same problem.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/processing/issues/detail?id=1473

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From f...@processing.org on December 14, 2012 19:38:13
Nothing has changed with showing a sketch folder since the last release. Perhaps does this only happen with sketches that haven't been saved yet?

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From f...@processing.org on December 15, 2012 23:38:05
Can't reproduce this with Windows 7.

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From dil...@gmail.com on December 18, 2012 08:02:22
Happens with both saved and unsaved sketches. Since >>2 couldn't reproduce it, I went back and retried with 2.0b6 and had the same problem, so something must have changed on my machine after all. (1.5 still works fine.)

Any ideas?

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From f...@processing.org on December 19, 2012 23:48:44
Overly aggressive virus scanning software? Corporate policies locking down actions by some software?

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From dil...@gmail.com on December 20, 2012 00:05:38
Perhaps. However, I tried disabling my only antivirus (AVG) with the same results and I don't have any corporate policies controlling my computer.

Processing also freezes if I click on the link to preferences.txt inside the preferences window, so it does seem to be related to an inability to access outside folders/files.

My best guess right now is some sort of issue with my Java installation.

[joshgiesbrecht]

FWIW this is happening to me too. If someone has a solution I'd love to hear it.

[boubpopsyteam]

Working OK here with 2.0b8 x64 / W7 x64

[joshgiesbrecht]

Still having this problem with 2.0b9 ... BUT I've narrowed down when it works and when it doesn't.

If I open a sketch through File->SketchBook or File->Recent, it'll crash when I try Show Folder.

But if I open it via File->Open, then Show Folder works just fine.

Tested this even with a new sketchbook location and it's following this consistently on my PC.

[joshgiesbrecht]

Ugh, I've got this happening while debugging the IDE in Eclipse, and the "peer.open(file);" calls look identical in both cases. It's not something simple with a mangled filename or anything.

Slightly more specific conditions: does NOT hang if I open one sketch with the Open... dialog, then open SketchB with the Recent menu and try to view SketchB's folder. So just having done something with the Open dialog seems to make it magically go away.

[joshgiesbrecht]

Or the Save As... dialog box.

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