VC6 debugger hangs wxVidget app if breakpoint in event handler?

[Carsten A. Arnholm]

Carsten A. Arnholm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been experimenting with writing apps with wxWidgets 2.8.2 on
> Windows XP and Linux/Kubuntu for a while. My development is on
> Windows at the moment, using VC++ 6.0, as this is a well known
> development environment for me. I have been using it for other C++
> development and debugging for years.
> I have been experimenting to find ways of designing wxWidgets GUI
> with some success, but also with some problems. I have tried
> DialogBlocks and although it has many very nice features and I am
> able to generate some code that works, I feel my hands are a bit tied
> there. I have also tried designing GUI using wxGlade and that is a
> nice tool. At the moment I set up the overall projects with
> DialogBlocks, design and generate the C++ code with wxGlade and
> combine the output from the two in Developer Studio, for compilation
> and linking/debugging. This way I have made programs that work ok,
> essentially a wxFrame with a splitterwindow, some menus etc. The
> event handlers work also.
> What is a bit of a puzzle is that if I try to debug and set a VC++
> debugger breakpoint in a event handler of my wxWidgets programs, then
> everything freezes. And I mean *everything*. Even the Windows Task
> Manager is very hard to get to to stop the program, and usually the
> only way out is to hold in the power button on the PC and force a
> "hard stop" and reboot. Not so nice.
> Any clues to why this is happening? Is it a known problem? The
> program as such seems ok, as it runs under windows (without debugger)
> and under Linux/Kubuntu using KDevelop/GCC.
>
> Advice or suggestions appreciated!

For the record this turned out to be unrelated to wxWidgets (I believe). A 
re-install of XP removed the problem.  I have later also moved to Visual 
Studio 2005 Express Edition, and have no such issues there.

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