Hi Sajjad,
back from my vacation - hence the late reply. ;-)
What I did not mention in my initial mail(s) is that we stopped trying to
switch workgroups on the fly *via events* a while ago because this also
reliably crashed on our side.
We've been using a custom loader/saver dialog for a number of years now and
in there I can act upon the button onClicked() handler to call my workgroup
switching code.
My gut feeling is that these might be two different bugs/problems.
Cheers, Martin
--
Martin Chatterjee
[ Freelance Technical Director ]
[ http://www.chatterjee.de ]
[ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee ]
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Sajjad Amjad <sajjad.am...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies for bringing this slightly old thread back to life. I have been
> testing workgroup switching without having to restart Softimage.
>
> Specifically, I have two workgroups, where each workgroup has just one
> add-on installed in it. No .xsirtcompound files exist in any workgroup.
>
> The addon in each of the two workgroups is a unique version of VRay.
>
> I want to ideally trigger the workgroup switch using the onEndSceneOpen
> event (as every scene defines it's renderer version in a custom property)
>
> If I use the siOnEndSceneOpen event for switching, Softimage always
> crashes. Unlike Martins case, the rate of success is 0. However, if I
> attach the logic inside the event callback to a buttons OnClicked callback,
> the switching works flawlessly after the button is clicked.
>
> Martins original post required an xsirtcompound file to be present in the
> workgroup for Softimage to reliably crash, but I can reproduce this crash
> every time without the file. It seems to me that this problem is a bit
> deeper than it seems. Seng-Siong Lim wrote saying that it was only
> reproduced when using a script for switching and manual switching worked
> fine. In my case, the switching in either case is triggered through a
> script (OnClicked or OnEvent) but only fails when fired through an OnEvent
> callback.
>
> If anyone else has notes to share on this, please share.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Sajjad
>
>
> On 16 August 2012 16:31, Nic Groot Bluemink <nicgrootbluem...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Oh aye, I wouldn't argue with that. It's that at the time live
>> loading/unloading of renderers was a (poorly) 'known limitation' of sorts -
>> the kind of annoyance you have to live with and work around. If changes
>> have been made to the system since and it's now a bug, then +1 to fixing
>> that :)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Steffen Dünner <
>> steffen.duen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would rather vote for fixing it where it's broken, i.e. on the
>>> Softimage side. :)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> 2012/8/15 Nic Groot Bluemink <nicgrootbluem...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> Hey Martin,
>>>>
>>>> Though it's little help, I recall running across a warning in the SI
>>>> docs that unloading custom renderers in-session could introduce
>>>> instabilities back when I was investigating the same thing. I can't find
>>>> the exact entry for you, it was weeks before I accidentally stumbled across
>>>> it last time, but that's pretty much where I threw my hands in the air and
>>>> wrote a workgroup switcher that would restart sessions instead here at
>>>> Kettle.
>>>>
>>>> Nic
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Technical Pretty Picture Making Person
>> Kettle <http://www.kettlestudio.co.uk/>
>>
>
>
