F2 is broken

[kaare]

When hitting F2, I just get a repeating dialog box (indefinitely?) with "Could not find a help provider for Text"

[karl.forner]

worksforme on ubuntu 9.10 virtualbox image on windows7, running Padre
r10960

[kaare]

Solved in or before release 0.57

[azawawi]

Actually it is not 100% fixed. I am reopening it.

I think i found the bug scenario.

Open a text file and a Perl 5 script.
Select the text file tab and press F2. You will get a message box telling you "Help Provider not found".
Now select the Perl 5 script and press F2, you will get "Reading items. Please wait" but not actually nothing is being done.

[kaare]

... or even easier:

Open padre with no documents. Press F2.

It will hang

[karl.forner]

...could you be more precise (OS, version) ?
Because it seems to work well on several configurations.

[azawawi]

WinXP, vista.

[kaare]

Linux, OpenSuse? 11.2

[submersible_toaster]

It's trawling the filesystem - not hung as such but the gui freezes. Leave it for a few minutes and see what happens. Subsequently opening helpsearch with F2 responds ... quicker.

[kaare]

Still, an action that hangs the program and prevents the user from using Padre for a couple of minutes should be considered broken.

[azawawi]

Fixed in r10972

[azawawi]

Added your comments in a new ticket:872 "F2 context search freezes Padre when opening it for the first time"

Thank you.