Re: [PD] GUI freeze

-- Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Associate Professor Computer Music ICAT Senior Fellow Director -- DISIS, L2Ork Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts – 0141 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 ico@vt.edu www.performingarts.vt.edu disis.icat.vt.edu l2ork.icat.vt.edu ico.bukvic.net On Sep 23, 2017 08:08, "Roman Haefeli" reduzent@gmail.com wrote: > > BTW, A friend of mine and me, we have been experiencing it on Linux and > on Windows with versions Pd 0.46 - 0.48. > > Roman > > On Fre, 2017-09-22 at 16:11 +0200, Johnny Mauser via Pd-list wrote: > > I have the same behaviour in Ubuntu 16.04 and pd 0.46 > > > > The only workarround i found was to construct the gui in another > > instance. > > > > Am 22.09.2017 3:14 nachm. schrieb "Roman Haefeli" <reduzent@gmail.com > > >: > > Hey all > > > > Apologies for a somewhat vague bug report about a hard to reproduce > > issues (yeah, everybody loves those). > > > > I tend to create instruments for netpd with lots of visual feeback > > (song position in sequencer, triggered notes, automated values, > > meters). Sometimes during sessions with rather many instruments, it > > happens what I (only half-correctly) call a GUI freeze. Sliders, > > number > > atoms, symbol atoms, radios etc. stop visually reflecting any change. > > They still do send new values through their outlet, but are not > > updated > > visually, neither when manually changed or when sending new values > > through inlet or send symbol. When it happens, it affects all GUI > > widgets of all patches the running Pd instance. It usually happens > > after an error is printed to the Pd console: > > > > (Tcl) INVALID COMMAND NAME: invalid command name ".x88d5c68.c" > > while executing > > ".x88d5c68.c delete curve8cc3d94" > > ("uplevel" body line 23) > > invoked from within > > "uplevel #0 $docmds" > > > > > > Interestingly, when I minimize a canvas and unminimize (or switch > > desktop away and back) it again, it all widgets display the current > > values, though live changes are still not updated. Also not all > > properties of the GUI widgets are affected. Label texts, label fonts, > > background, foreground and label colors, also cnv dimensions and > > similar things are still updated. Or in other words: Those aspects > > that > > work both ways (GUI -> pd and pd -> GUI) are affected, while the > > supplemental features of the widgets that can't be controlled by > > mouse > > (pd -> GUI only) are not affected. The situation persists until I > > restart Pd. > > > > That's again a vague statement, but I have the impression it got > > slightly worse when switching from 0.47 to 0.48. I'm not able to > > create > > a simple patch that triggers the GUI freeze. However, I have saved > > sessions that run reliably into this within minutes. > > > > Thanks for any thoughts on this. > > > > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/lis > > tinfo/pd-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/lis > > tinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list > >