Hello monks,

I encountered a problem with a small Tk application packed with pp and deployed on a Citrix workspace (virtual apps). I am not an expert of such deployment tools. I have only access to a normal instance as a final user would, so I do not have the possibility to have crash reports. The problem I am having is with getOpenFile (and getSaveFile) which crashes as soon as the process is invoked. However, this does not happen all the time. Unfortunately, I did not figure out what made the difference. So, now I need to collect some ideas where the problem may lay, which is hard as I do not have access to reports. As I thought that the problem may lay on some mapping issues between the place where the application is run and the virtual environment, I played with the option  -initialdir, assigning several values or omitting it. I also tried to replicate the issue on my machine assigning to  -initialdir a non existing value, but was not able to make it crash. So I ask your wisdom: What are the possible factors that could bring this function to crash?

PS: I am very sorry that I do not have more details about the problem.

$Path = $mw->getOpenFile(
  -filetypes => $types, 
  -initialdir => $DefaultUserDirectoryUnicode,
);

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In reply to Tk crashes with getOpenFile on virtual machines by IB2017

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