[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-extended 0.43.4 release candidate 1: last chance to report your bugs

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 01/23/2013 07:02 AM, Patrice Colet wrote:
>> On 01/07/2013 07:51 PM, Patrice Colet wrote:
>>>
>>> hello, I'd like to report again a problem that is still not resolved in this release...
>>>
>>> On win32, I've got many pd patches that makes the GUI not working with mouse binding, 
>>> I can not move any object on the patch, only the arrows can make it move when it's selected.
>>>
>>> It's still hard to tell where does it come from without passing hours opening, modifying, 
>>> closing, and opening again patches that makes pd GUI doing this, maybe one day...
>>
>> Yeah, that's a tough one.  Is this something that you have reported before,
>> like in a bug report in the tracker?  Do you get any error messages when it
>> happens?
>>
>> I've seen bugs like this in the past, I think we've fixed some of them, but I
>> wouldn't be surprised if there are still some out there.
> 
> Hello, I think I've found out where this problem comes from...
> It's related with audio, asio particulary...portaudio is still a big problem here...
> 
> In some words, when asio doesn't work the mouse binding is out.
> 
> I'd be glad to put a bug report but I don't really know how to attribute this one,
> it's both hardware (it might be a portaudio bug),
> hardcoding (it might be how portaudio is implemented in pd), 
> and interface (the tcl part shouldn't be involved when audio is messing up)...

If you think you have something repeatable, then please file a bug report.
Ideally, it would be the steps needed to reprocude it everytime or a patch to
trigger the bug.  But that's not always possible.

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