[PD] GUI overload
Ed Kelly
morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jan 5 02:18:10 CET 2013
> While you're at it, it would be great if you could also try pd-l2ork and
> report any gui overload issues. There are debs available on the site
> (http://l2ork.music.vt.edu), although the most up-to-date ones are found in
> the http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/data/pd/ folder. You can also install from git
> using automated install script.
Is it independent of the normal Pd install? Its just I have some gigs coming up, and I don't want to fry the (stable) system I have. Especially with teaching starting again next week (less time vs eating)
I have an old Dell laptop I can test on if not, once I get the Broadcom WiFi working in Ubuntu.
Ed
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ico
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces at iem.at] On Behalf Of
>> Ed Kelly
>> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 6:16 PM
>> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner; pd-list at iem.at
>> Subject: Re: [PD] GUI overload
>>
>> Hey Hans...
>>
>> I'm on Lucid (10.04LTS Ubuntu). I've tried to get later Ubuntu
> versions to
> run
>> on my new and old machines with no success, so I compiled the source code
>> of Pd-extended 0.43 (2012-12-28 build). All was fine in linux_make/, then
> I
>> tried "sudo make install" from packages directory.
>>
>> install -p -m 644 jmmmp-meta.pd \
>> /home/edward/software/pd/extended/0.43/pd-
>> extended/packages/build/lib/pd-extended/extra/jmmmp
>> test -z "" || (\
>> install -p -m 644 /home/edward/software/pd/extended/0.43/pd-
>> extended/packages/build/lib/pd-extended/extra/jmmmp && \
>> )
>> /bin/sh: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
>> make[2]: *** [libdir_install] Error 2
>>
>> ?
>> Ed
>>
>>
>> Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics!
>> http://sharktracks.co.uk/
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> > To: pd-list at iem.at
>> > Cc:
>> > Sent: Friday, 28 December 2012, 5:22
>> > Subject: Re: [PD] GUI overload
>> >
>> >
>> > Hey Ed,
>> >
>> > I just committed a couple more fixes for [tgl] and [mknob] that make
>> > them only send the GUI updates when something actually has changed.
>> > This can greatly reduce the amount of traffic to the GUI.
>> >
>> > Can you try your patch with the 2012-12-28 build of Pd-extended and
>> > see if you still get freezes?
>> > http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2012-12-28/
>> >
>> > .hc
>> >
>> > On 12/16/2012 08:47 AM, 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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