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Old 18th October 2019, 01:09   #491  |  Link
Liisachan
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Sometimes Job output says "No errors" while status bar says "error"

[GUI] Error status from the previous session persists until explicitly acknowledged, even when no errors occur in the current session. Maybe by design, but could be confusing as follows:

Tested: MKVToolNix v38 on Win7 32-bit

Steps to repro:
1. Start mkvtoolnix-gui.exe, select a source file (e.g. some.avi)
2. Rename "some.avi" to "renamed.avi" behind the back of the GUI
3. On GUI: Start muxing -> the status bar shows [X] 1 error (as the source file is not found)
4. Just close mkvtoolnix-gui, restart it later -> Still [X] 1 error is shown
5. Select "renamed.avi" and mux it into "renamed.mkv" -> Now successful. but...

Expected result:
In most tools (especially command line ones), even if an error occurred in the previous session and an error message was shown, that error will be automatically forgotten if one restarts the tool and do something new. If old errors are remembered, the corresponding old error messages should be shown too, to explain what errors it is talking about.

What happened instead:
GUI still shows [X] 1 error. Job Output inconsistently says "No errors yet".
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