Hi,
I'm struggling with a problem of the most weird kind.
I've not been able to isolate it, but I do can report a systematic
behaviour which astonishes me.
PD-Vanilla 0.40.1 in Windows XP
I have an enormous very complex patch that I've been developing for
months, built with a careful top-down/bottom-up design (i.e. designing
and reusing a huge lot of abstractions at various levels), with a lot
of GOP, also nested.
Up to now I didn't have any serious problem, and the programming of
the patch is quite clean; for example I used to be able to use it for
hours without without a single error message ever showing up in the
output.
Now, after some recent changes, the ABSURD behaviour is:
*CASE 1*
-I launch PD
-I open my main patch
-PD crashes immediately
*CASE 2*
-I launch PD
-I create a new patch (File/new)
-I put a [route a b c] (literally) object, and NOTHING more
-I open my main patch
-PD DOESN'T crash and the patch works great as it used to do.
If I launch PD with from commandline with -noloadbang, it never
crashes, so I guess the crash is caused by some message triggered by
some loadbang
I've repeated the two tests tens of times (always closing pd and
starting over from scratch) and the results are 100% coherent, i.e.
case 1 always crashes, and case 2 never crashes.
I'm really astonished: how is it possible that the mere existence or
non existence of a [route] object not connected to anything can
prevent or not the crash, whatever causes it?!!!???!?!?
I know I'm giving too little information to ask for a diagnosis, but
does anybody know of some weired bug of [route]??
The recent changes mentioned above, are in the [control_element]
abstractionn that I attach, which uses the [schange] and [switch2]
abstractions.
I can't see anything wrong in them
I can't reproduce the bug with a simple test patch using an instance
of [control_element]. It is used tons of times in my main patch.
Any idea? Do you see any potential problem in the attached patch that
may cause illegal situations under some circumstances?
I will greatly appreciate any help
Bye
m.
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Matteo Sisti Sette
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.matteosistisette.com
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#X obj 151 107 s \$1;
#X obj 200 151 r \$1;
#X obj 250 765 s \$1-if-receive;
#X obj 199 231 route float symbol;
#X obj 72 554 change;
#X obj 10 372 switch2;
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#X obj 29 404 t b f f;
#X msg 85 378 1;
#X obj 425 596 schange;
#X obj 475 416 switch2;
#X msg 533 506 set \$1;
#X msg 550 422 1;
#X obj 536 462 t b s s;
#X obj 242 673 list prepend set;
#X obj 242 703 list trim;
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#X text 65 278 this used to go;
#X text 65 292 directly to the;
#X text 360 317 this used to go;
#X text 360 331 directly to the;
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#X connect 2 0 4 0;
#X connect 4 0 6 0;
#X connect 4 1 11 0;
#X connect 4 2 15 0;
#X connect 5 0 15 0;
#X connect 6 0 8 0;
#X connect 6 1 5 0;
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#X connect 11 1 10 0;
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#X obj 115 59 inlet;
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#X obj 389 77 inlet;
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#X obj 290 48 loadbang;
#X obj 290 102 f \$1;
#X obj 109 288 spigot 1;
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#X msg 138 242 1;
#X msg 178 243 0;
#X msg 402 247 1;
#X msg 442 248 0;
#X obj 141 207 t b b;
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#X connect 0 0 8 0;
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#X connect 4 0 13 0;
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#X connect 5 0 6 0;
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#X connect 7 0 1 0;
#X connect 8 0 2 0;
#X connect 9 0 7 1;
#X connect 10 0 7 1;
#X connect 11 0 8 1;
#X connect 12 0 8 1;
#X connect 13 0 12 0;
#X connect 13 1 9 0;
#X connect 14 0 10 0;
#X connect 14 1 11 0;
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#X obj 171 46 inlet;
#X obj 189 274 outlet;
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#X connect 0 0 4 0;
#X connect 2 1 3 0;
#X connect 3 0 1 0;
#X connect 3 1 2 1;
#X connect 4 0 5 0;
#X connect 4 1 2 0;
#X connect 5 0 2 1;
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