MBS Scintilla control breaks the IDE GUI in Linux Mint

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Hello all,

I just switched to Linux as my daily driver and I’ve started using Xojo 2026R2 under Mint 22.3 (Cinnamon/dark theme Adapta-Nokto)

I’ve been trying to use the MBS Scintilla 26.3 control and when it’s loaded, it breaks the IDE GUI in the following ways:

  • It makes Library icons go missing.
  • It makes the form designer and project navigator blank when added to a Window.

You can see what it does in the attached screen capture. When I remove it from the Plugins folder, everything returns back to normal. The rest of the plugins cause no problems.

Christian, any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

Scintilla

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Can you try other controls from us?
e.g. drop in the WinFrameworks plugin and check if WebView control shows the same behavior?

I expect this more like a redraw issue in the Xojo IDE.

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Hello Christian, the WebView control shows the same behavior.

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Thanks for testing.
Maybe you report to Xojo Inc. via issues website?

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So, the conclusion of this test is that it’s Xojo’s issue?
I’m asking because Einhugur’s controls show no such problems under the same conditions.

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In the IDE, we don’t initialize the Scintilla library.
We just draw a dummy control.

Maybe Einhugur uses a real control there. Not sure.

I can’t reproduce the problem here on my Linux box, but that is Ubuntu 24.