Minor LimeWire issues with Leopard OS

[johnvic(jgv)]

I'm not seeing the Limewire 4.10.4 Pro crashing issues others are seeing, but with my new installation of Leopard OS (iMac G5 Intel Core duo 2 gigabytes SDRAM) I found my search gets corrupted, so that with multiple music title searches, the content of the search window doesn't correspond with the search button. Searches that I've ended, persist in the button titles. Even if I "clear search history" when looking for a music title, I sometimes get multiple search buttons appearing, although the download window remains OK.

It's a medium-small problem, didn't see it on earlier versions of Mac OS or Limewire. Goes away if I shut off Limewire and restart, but then eventually re-appears.

[johnvic(jgv)]

I downloaded Limewire from Limewire.com. I've had it for years; faithfully upgrading it as upgrades became available. Limewire worked fine through previous upgrades in Mac OSX: Panther, Tiger etc.

I've not tried anything like deleting and reinstalling Limewire because it works OK except for that annoying button confusion it develops during searches.

[stief]

Could you post a screenshot of the "button confusion"?

[johnvic(jgv)]

I've uploaded a screen image of an example of what I'm seeing (after a while) under Leopard. The selection button is clearly labeled, but the window seems to still be in the mode of accepting a new search. In obtaining this, I noted a few other problems: sometimes LimeWire just stops searching (the lime segment stops turning) even when I start on a new search. Further, under Leopard, the button no longer shows how much of the search has been completed–it just shows a uniform blue color all the time. Before Leopard, a darker bar would advance as the search became more-and-more complete. This is a very helpful feature, as once complete with no useful search resulting, it's possible to cancel that search. I set my preferences to a maximum of six searches.

[stief]

Hi jgv

Thanks for the screenie, though I'm still not clear on the problem. The lack of new results and that the search bar isn't updating might be that connections have been "frozen." There is a bug that should be fixed in the next version that *may* fix the problem. https://www.limewire.org/jira/browse/LWC-831


You can/should delete the screenie now, or could ask a mod to do that for you.

If, the next time you see this, try switching to the view->connections, and seeing if they update. If they are 'frozen' then the bug fix will probably apply to you too.

[johnvic(jgv)]

I believe that Stief is correct. What happens is that after a while, I'll type a song title to search, press Search, and the search bar fails to appear and the LimeWire logo shows no activity. If I add more searches, nothing happens but finally, something "kicks" in and all the searches I've entered suddenly appear.

However, there is yet another issue; under OSX 10.4, you could see search progress as an advancing darker color on the highlighted search bar header. Under Leopard, the search bar is one color, so you can no longer tell search progress. Also, on rare occasions (I couldn't get it to happen recently) the header search bar will get out of synch with the window search result. So, highlighting the header search bar shows a search result one removed. I've heard that Leopard implements a new Java version, so I'm guessing these button issues are related to that.