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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed Jan 23 17:43:05 CET 2013


On 01/23/2013 07:31 AM, Pierre-Olivier Boulant wrote:
> 
> On 23/01/2013 13:22, Pierre-Olivier Boulant wrote:
>>
>> On 23/01/2013 13:02, 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)...
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems I have something similar on Windows 7 64bits.
>>
>> When selecting ASIO (DSP on or off), I have a great lag when moving the
>> mouse around. The object takes a second to catch up with mouse pointer once
>> it's stopped. There's no continuous updating of the object position like
>> with MMIO selected.
>> Happens on a new canvas with just one object, any object (I used [route] and
>> [sel]), not just GUI stuff. With GUI elements (numbox) the value is not
>> updated until the mouse stops briefly.
>>
>> pob
> 
> Looking into the matter, it seems to affect portaudio when I select the sound
> chip of the laptop, but not when I select ASIO4all. I haven't tried my RME
> Hdsp yet.

> Also, when turning off DSP, the tick left of the selected audio output mode
> disappears (ASIO or MMIO). It reappears once you re-enable DSP.

Can you make a screenshot and add it to the bug report patco said he'd file?
The above info would be good to have there too.  Something is definitely
problematic with the portaudio implementation.  It was causing issues on Mac
OS X, and its the same code.

.hc



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