[PD] vista & win7 support ?

[rene beekman]

i made the suggested change to the [sel] help patch and now have confirmation on 2 out of 3 i've seen machines with these problems, that the modified patch no longer crashes pd.

this is a weeeeiiiiird problem that would have been extremely hard to find without your help. thanks!

looking forward to any solution to this making it into the nightly builds :)

rene



On May 10, 2010, at 11:27, patko wrote:

> My friend Dichotomie ( Binary search algorithm )
> has helped me out to find out the problem with this patch.
> 
> just replace "print NO_match" by "print Nomatch"
> 
> it's seems there's a problem with stdout or something like this
> I'll try to pay attention to warnings during next compile unless
> someone finds out that micromagic...
> 
> Patrice Colet - 06 32 66 03 57 
> 
> ----- "patko" <colet.patrice at free.fr> a écrit :
> 
>> The problem is one light year beyond what I've suggested first,
>> sorry,
>> it comes from the help patch.
>> 
>> It's very hard to figure out what's going on,
>> and watching what's happening by modifying things
>> by hand with a text editor might help to
>> find out the kinky lines, good luck!
>> 
>> Why not trying out select-help.pd from vanilla or older one in svn?
>> 
>> 
>> Patrice Colet - 06 32 66 03 57 
>> 
>> ----- "rene beekman" <r at raakvlak.net> a écrit :
>> 
>>> tested this tonight on one machine running win7.
>>> replacing the pd.dll in the pd/bin folder made pd unable to
>> start....
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 08, 2010, at 16:38, patko wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've recently compiled a version of pd-extended
>>>> just replacing pd.dll fixes it, it's attached
>>>> 
>>>> ----- "rene beekman" <r at raakvlak.net> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>>> i reported this problem several months ago.
>>>>> the suggestion back then was to test nightly builds, which did
>> not
>>>>> work at the time.
>>>>> more recent nightly builds did not solve this problem either.
>>>>> 
>>>>> it appears on some laptops running vista or windows7, but not
>> all.
>>>>> i have so far not been able to recreate this problem on a
>> machine
>>> that
>>>>> did not have the problem.
>>>>> 
>>>>> has anyone else seen this problem? been able to solve it?
>>>>> 
>>>>> i have several pd courses coming up for which i'm expecting the
>>>>> majority of participants to be running windoze - they will be
>>> brining
>>>>> in their own machines. 
>>>>> problem is, once into the courses i will not have the time to
>>>>> troubleshoot this kind of problem and i dread going into this
>>> knowing
>>>>> that any machine running vista or windows7 is potentially
>>> unstable...
>>>>> 
>>>>> would greatly appreciate help in figuring this out
>>>>> 
>>>>> rene
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 14, 2010, at 19:23, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1) try a Pd-extended 0.42.5 nightly build
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2) try this version with the [multiselect] object removed from
>>> the
>>>>> "related objects" subpatch
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <select-help.pd>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> .hc
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:59 AM, rene beekman wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> we're having problems running pd-extended 0.41.4 on vista &
>>>>> windows7
>>>>>>> problems seem to be related to several particular objects or
>>>>> patches
>>>>>>> one example is the select-help patch. opening the help patch
>>> either
>>>>> via the desktop, or from within pd via the browser or via the
>>> context
>>>>> menu's 'help' option results in windows closing pd
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> the application error log on one particular machine shows
>> this:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Faulting application pd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp
>>>>> 0x4a277929, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6002.18005,
>>> time
>>>>> stamp 0x49e03821, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset
>>> 0x00041f3c,
>>>>> process id 0x1534, application start time 0x01caad6a4a506d60.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> on the windows7 machine, it is the same library that is marked
>>> as
>>>>> "faulting module", only it's a 6.1 version
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> is this a known bug?
>>>>>>> any workarounds?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> thanks in advance
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> rene
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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