[texworks] Impossible to open bigger files with release 0.4.6

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Sep 13, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Hironobu YAMASHITA <h.y.acetaminophen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I reproduced the same problem as Franky,
> on Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit.
> 
> Sample .tex file is expl3-code.tex in l3kernel.
> In my environment, the extension .tex is associated
> with texworks.exe. So when I double-click on the file
> icon of .tex, TeXworks starts and open it.
> However, texworks almost hangs when a file is too
> large like expl3-code.tex. Strangely, when I start
> texworks.exe beforehand and open expl3-code.tex
> from [File]-[Open...] menu, the file appears in less
> than 5 seconds.
> 
> This is true on TeXworks 0.4.6 r.c29723a (official)
> built with Qt 5.4.1​, but NOT true on TeXworks 0.4.5
> r1280 (official) built with Qt 4.8.1
> 
> Regards,
> Hironobu Y​AMASHITA​
> e-mail: h.y.acetaminophen at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 2015-09-14 0:54 GMT+09:00 Franky DE BRUYNE <f.debruyne at ecam.be>:
> Hello,
> 
> I have recently update texworks to the latests release 0.4.6 … I do not know wat the initial version was.
> 
> I have problems to open files. It takes ages. Bigger files do not even open can you help me ?
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franky
> 
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Howdy,

It crashes when opening a 1.4MB file no matter how I open it (double click with TeXworks closed or open or via File->Open) on my Mac. This is the version 0.5 test using QT v4.8.6 under OS X 10.10.5.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)