[PD] very strange bug

[oliver]

hi, list

when i was working with PD 0.38.3 (on WinXP), lately i discovered a very strange 
phenomenon that luckily occurs on very rare occasions only (which i fear makes it very 
hard to reproduce or strip down):

sometimes during editing, random windows pop up with every mouseclick i do on a window's 
blue top-frame. most of these windows are PD help patches; some seem to be tkl script 
files. every click on a window opens up new one until there's so many windows open that PD 
quits. forunately there's always a chance to save my work before the window-flood becomes 
fatal. i also noticed, that clicking INSIDE a window (rather than its top frame) doesn't 
make another window pop up...

now i'm pretty sure, that this is no virus-related issue. i also took care that i got rid 
of all PD 0.37 files when i upgraded to 0.38 (don't want to join the 0.39 party yet as 
long as the "Close this window??" thing is still there). however, i think i use pretty 
hairy stuff in my patches: lots of vst plugin windows, lots of 3rd party externals (mostly 
cyclone), as well thomas grill's "wmangle" and toxy. all of them are used to fiddle around 
with the graphical guts of PD and maybe this combination is a bit too risky but i would 
like to ask the list if anyone has experienced a similar PD-behaviour as described above

thanks

oliver




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