Crash from Rapid Clicks

[thedisciple]

BPO	990911
Nosy	@kbkaiser

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assignee = 'https://github.com/kbkaiser'
closed_at = <Date 2004-09-01.15:13:25.000>
created_at = <Date 2004-07-14.14:54:29.000>
labels = ['expert-IDLE']
title = 'Crash from Rapid Clicks'
updated_at = <Date 2004-09-01.15:13:25.000>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/thedisciple'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2004-09-01.15:13:25.000>
actor = 'kbk'
assignee = 'kbk'
closed = True
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['IDLE']
creation = <Date 2004-07-14.14:54:29.000>
creator = 'thedisciple'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 990911
keywords = []
message_count = 5.0
messages = ['21580', '21581', '21582', '21583', '21584']
nosy_count = 3.0
nosy_names = ['nnorwitz', 'kbk', 'thedisciple']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'works for me'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = None
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue990911'
versions = ['Python 2.3']

[thedisciple]

IDLE crashes when I rapidly (within 1/2 second, maybe)
click the Run, then Options menus on the menu bar.
These seem to be the only menus for which the crash
happens, which is odd. I'm running Windows XP SP1 on
an AMD system using Python 2.3.3

[thedisciple]

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Update: With a little more expirimentation I found that it often
crashes whenever any of the last 3 menus (Options, Windows,
Help) are clicked. It works fine if another menu is clicked then
the mouse is moved over one of the last three menus to open
it. I also noticed that after crashing the program many times
to determine the problem, I see about twenty pythonw.exe
processes running in Windows Task Manager.

[nnorwitz]

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Kurt, have you heard of this before?

[kbkaiser]

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I can't duplicate this on W2K using 2.3.4 or 2.4a1. Please try 2.4a2
when it comes out and if this issue is still there please provide the
code which was running and whether you used F5 or the menu to
start the run.

[kbkaiser]

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No response from OP, closing as works-for-me.