[PD-dev] more information on the gui getting stuck on 0.42.5

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

It appears this is definitely linked to the amount of data exchanged
between Pd and Tcl/Tk and apparently sliders are relatively hungry
GUI-wise as their presence definitely increases frequency of this
occurence. What is particularly curious is the stderr feedback. The
moment gui loses ability to sync following objects stop responding:

hradio
vradio
vu
hslider
vslider
number2
and old number objects

curiously bang and toggle remain operational

You can try to type in the old number and the first digit followed
by ... appears but it never updates.

The system remains responsive even with gui stuck (data is still being
passed through objects that appear stuck).

stderr shows last command that causes problem as:
missing close-brace

which suggests to me that perhaps messages flow so fast to tcl/tk that
it perhaps some of them get mangled and lose the closing brace. The
patch in question uses only following gui objects:
number2/number/toggle/vslider/bang/canvas.

Any ideas?

Best wishes,

Ico