i made the suggested change to the [sel] help patch and now have confirmation on 2 out of 3 i've seen machines with these problems, that the modified patch no longer crashes pd.
this is a weeeeiiiiird problem that would have been extremely hard to find without your help. thanks! looking forward to any solution to this making it into the nightly builds :) rene On May 10, 2010, at 11:27, patko wrote: > My friend Dichotomie ( Binary search algorithm ) > has helped me out to find out the problem with this patch. > > just replace "print NO_match" by "print Nomatch" > > it's seems there's a problem with stdout or something like this > I'll try to pay attention to warnings during next compile unless > someone finds out that micromagic... > > Patrice Colet - 06 32 66 03 57 > > ----- "patko" <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> The problem is one light year beyond what I've suggested first, >> sorry, >> it comes from the help patch. >> >> It's very hard to figure out what's going on, >> and watching what's happening by modifying things >> by hand with a text editor might help to >> find out the kinky lines, good luck! >> >> Why not trying out select-help.pd from vanilla or older one in svn? >> >> >> Patrice Colet - 06 32 66 03 57 >> >> ----- "rene beekman" <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> tested this tonight on one machine running win7. >>> replacing the pd.dll in the pd/bin folder made pd unable to >> start.... >>> >>> >>> >>> On May 08, 2010, at 16:38, patko wrote: >>> >>>> I've recently compiled a version of pd-extended >>>> just replacing pd.dll fixes it, it's attached >>>> >>>> ----- "rene beekman" <[email protected]> a écrit : >>>> >>>>> i reported this problem several months ago. >>>>> the suggestion back then was to test nightly builds, which did >> not >>>>> work at the time. >>>>> more recent nightly builds did not solve this problem either. >>>>> >>>>> it appears on some laptops running vista or windows7, but not >> all. >>>>> i have so far not been able to recreate this problem on a >> machine >>> that >>>>> did not have the problem. >>>>> >>>>> has anyone else seen this problem? been able to solve it? >>>>> >>>>> i have several pd courses coming up for which i'm expecting the >>>>> majority of participants to be running windoze - they will be >>> brining >>>>> in their own machines. >>>>> problem is, once into the courses i will not have the time to >>>>> troubleshoot this kind of problem and i dread going into this >>> knowing >>>>> that any machine running vista or windows7 is potentially >>> unstable... >>>>> >>>>> would greatly appreciate help in figuring this out >>>>> >>>>> rene >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Feb 14, 2010, at 19:23, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 1) try a Pd-extended 0.42.5 nightly build >>>>>> >>>>>> 2) try this version with the [multiselect] object removed from >>> the >>>>> "related objects" subpatch >>>>>> >>>>>> <select-help.pd> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> .hc >>>>>> >>>>>> On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:59 AM, rene beekman wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> we're having problems running pd-extended 0.41.4 on vista & >>>>> windows7 >>>>>>> problems seem to be related to several particular objects or >>>>> patches >>>>>>> one example is the select-help patch. opening the help patch >>> either >>>>> via the desktop, or from within pd via the browser or via the >>> context >>>>> menu's 'help' option results in windows closing pd >>>>>>> >>>>>>> the application error log on one particular machine shows >> this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Faulting application pd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp >>>>> 0x4a277929, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6002.18005, >>> time >>>>> stamp 0x49e03821, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset >>> 0x00041f3c, >>>>> process id 0x1534, application start time 0x01caad6a4a506d60. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> on the windows7 machine, it is the same library that is marked >>> as >>>>> "faulting module", only it's a 6.1 version >>>>>>> >>>>>>> is this a known bug? >>>>>>> any workarounds? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> thanks in advance >>>>>>> >>>>>>> rene >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>>>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>>>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> "We have nothing to fear from love and commitment." - New York >>>>> Senator Diane Savino, trying to convince the NY Senate to pass a >>> gay >>>>> marriage bill >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>>>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>>> <pd.dll-win32-6.0.zip> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
