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

[Sergey Dubov]

Louis King Jr <inlieuoflou at gmail.com> писал(а) в своём письме Wed, 29 May  
2013 15:57:46 +0400:

> 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:
>> 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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With Best Regards,
[Oracle/VirtualBox] Sergey Dubov
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