hi greg,
a wild guess... not sure if tk/windows can handle tens of thousand menu entries.
For a pure Pd I get this (add many more for all the libraries and multiply by the number of open Pd windows):
~/PureData$ ls -l pd/doc/{2,3,4,5,6}*/* | wc -l 296
which translates into this in tkcon:
% set s 0
foreach m [winfo children .mbar.help] {incr s [$m index last]}
% set s
296
Unfortunately, while a majority of Pd users use windows, there seem to be not a single windows hacker left... all the people willing to investigate such things have migrated to mac or linux.
Krzysztof
ggkarman@musicologia.com wrote:
Dear list,
Im getting another really strange behaviour on 0.38.3. Ocassionally while programming, an unrequested help window of an arbitrary object pops up (it doesnt even need to be used in the patch). The thing is that after that every click on a canvas or a menu causes another help patch to open, and so on... i get dozens and dozens of windows and it is impossible to close pd. greg.