[PD] GUI overload

[Ed Kelly]

>This is just a guess... in s_inter.c, try replacing:

> 
> int sys_pollgui(void)
> {
>     return (sys_domicrosleep(0, 1) || sys_poll_togui());
> }
> 
> with:
> 
> int sys_pollgui(void)
> {
>     return (sys_domicrosleep(0, 1) + sys_poll_togui());
> }


That's great! The hack seems to work really well.

> I've also seen a patch's GUI stop updating, but rather than bewail the 

> fact 
> that my GUI was dead, my immediate reactions was to be astonished that the 
> sound was still working :)


...that's the best way a glitch could happen I suppose, but anything to reduce "PANIC!" moments while performing will improve my life a lot <:->

Ed

> 
> Miller
> 
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 01:47:43PM +0000, Ed Kelly wrote:
>>  Hi List,
>> 
>>  I'm not going to say whether this is a "recurrent" problem as 
> it's hard to say whether the rewrite of the GUI has affected it...
>> 
>>  I'm using a lot of abstractions with larger GOP or non-GOP GUIs, and I 
> find the following problem occurs. There comes a point where the GUI objects 
> stop responding in a patch when it is reloaded. I am wondering if there is a 
> specific limit to GUI objects that could be changed. I think Pd is making some 
> kind of decision that "there's too much of this stuff - I'm gonna 
> prioritize the audio and not worry about it" and I'd like to know how 
> or if it is possible to control this process from within Pd, or by setting flags 
> on the command line.
>> 
>>  I'm also making less GUI intensive versions for performance time, since 
> the really big GUI patches are often pattern-sequencers which I will not want to 
> program when I am performing. Example patch enclosed to give you an idea. The 
> really GUI-intensive objects are the trackers, especially quadtracker (which I 
> think has pushed the GUI of Pd patches about as far as I can go now).
>> 
>>  System: quad core i5 PC running Ubuntu (10.04 Lucid), Pd-0.43-4, lots of 
> externals compiled and loaded.
>> 
>>  Warm wishes,
>>  Ed
>> 
>>  Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics!
>>  http://sharktracks.co.uk/
> 
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