[PD] Re: undo crasher in 0.36-test9

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Wed Nov 27 06:45:27 CET 2002


Happens to me too on Linux.  Kaboom!  Will try to fix this and the
"text editor" bog now...

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:56:28AM +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Hi Miller,
> 
> I'm seeing a fairly consistent crasher on the Mac, using a freshly-
> squeezed pd-0.36-test9.
> 
> 1) create two objects
> 2) connect them
> 3) start changing the destination object by typing into it
> 4) stop typing mid-word (so that the name wouldn't be a legal object)
> 5) press undo
> 
> sometimes it's a bus error, sometimes it's a segfault. Once or twice, an
> odd clone of the source object was created. Once, I got a slightly more
> helpful error: "Consistency check failed: glist_findrtext".
> 
> Does this appear on NT or Linux?
> 
> 
> I tried to find the source of Frank's Text Editor non-function, but once
> I reached g_editor.c::canvas_key, I realised there's a whole lot I don't
> understand about certain of Pd's internals. :)
> 
> But in looking at it, I learned that--at least in the current version of
> Tcl/Tk MacOSX--we're not getting keysyms from the arrow keys. That
> explains a couple things that Ryan mentioned earlier. I have a simple
> hack for the end of canvas_key that helps move objects around on the
> canvas. (Was planning on throwing it at CVS tomorrow morning.)
> 
> adam
>  
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