[New-bugs-announce] [issue25309] askopenfilename crashes on XP with "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items" on

[alex wieder]

New submission from alex wieder:

Hi,

This is my first bug report, so please be gentle if I don't stick to protocol correctly. I'm also tired from spending about 8 hours tracking down this problem.

OS Affected: XP SP3 (maybe others as well, and I'm aware that python doesn't support xp anymore, but I have plenty of clients still on it). I suggest that you test this in more recent Windows versions as well.

To reproduce:
- Enable "Show Pop-up description for folder and desktop items" in Explorer->Tools->Folder Options->View.
- Create a small python script that opens the askopenfilename dialog.
- Open any local folder.
- Hover the mouse over some files and wait for the pointer to turn into an hourglass as the system tries to gather information for the pop-up for that file. (pdf's are ideal for this as it takes a few seconds for the pop-up to appear.)
- Once the pointer's an hourglass, double click on the file.

Workaround:
- Disable  "Show Pop-up description for folder and desktop items" in Explorer->Tools->Folder Options->View and the problem goes away.

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components: Tkinter, Windows
files: pickfile.py
messages: 252248
nosy: alexwieder, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: askopenfilename crashes on XP with "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items" on
type: crash
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40669/pickfile.py

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