[vbox-dev] VirtualBox-4.2.51-85924-OSX.dmg Shared Folders Broken

[Louis King Jr]

glad to help. I'm looking forward to the next build.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Sergey Dubov <Sergey.Dubov at oracle.com>wrote:

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> Louis King Jr <inlieuoflou at gmail.com> писал(а) в своём письме Wed, 29 May
> 2013 15:57:46 +0400:
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> Thanks for the explanation and I'm glad the blank window isn't just me. I
> think I figured out how to properly reply... finally.
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com>wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wednesday 29 May 2013 11:58:15 Louis King Jr wrote:
>> > Any guest. if I try and add a shared folder it brings up the dialog to
>> add
>> > them and I can select a drive which is what I normally use shared
>> folders
>> > for. One thing that happens is "Make permanent" is missing from the
>> dialog
>> > if I try and add a folder to a guest created before 4.2.51. "Make
>> > Permanent" shows for a new guest. Once I select a drive to add and click
>> > okay, a new blank dialog window opens which I can't close and
>> everything is
>> > frozen. I have to force quit VirtualBox. Mac host. OSX 10.8.3
>>
>> first, the "Make permanent" box is only shown for running VMs. If the
>> VM isn't running (you opened the VM settings and selected "Shared
>> Folders"),
>> the setting will be always permanent.
>>
>> But I see the same blank window here. We will look into it.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Frank
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> Hello.
> About the "blank modal window".
> Its an old Qt bug under MacOS X host since Qt 4.5 (which had a lot of
> changes related to MacOS X look&feel according to Apple HIG).
> Its related to window-modality / application-modality handling (which is
> represented by the Mac sheet /  Mac modal window respectively).
> I can't explain it fully because I'm not sure why does that happens
> myself, but we had a workaround for it which was accidentally removed
> during one of reworks. Now since the actual issue still present I returned
> workaround in-place again.
> Thanks for spotting this issue!
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