[11 Mar 2007] Problems with 2.5 on OS4 Final

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:12:55 -0000

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for your continued development of Hollywood!

Ever since upgrading to OS4 Final, my Hollywood scripts have not been running right. I thought that it might fix itself with Hollywood 2.5, but the problem persists.

The problem is that certain transitional wipes (especially #DISSOLVE) are much slower than before. Also moving objects with the BOUNCE effect is way too slow (even if I set the speed to something ridiculous like 500).

Any ideas?

P.S.: Also I get frequent crashes with one script in particular---sometimes I can get a GrimReaper report, but other times it just freezes. Would you want me to e-mail you the crash log?

Thanks.

___ Paul

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:21:26 +0100

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for your continued development of Hollywood!

Ever since upgrading to OS4 Final, my Hollywood scripts have not been running right. I thought that it might fix itself with Hollywood 2.5, but the problem persists.

The problem is that certain transitional wipes (especially #DISSOLVE) are much slower than before. Also moving objects with the BOUNCE effect is way too slow (even if I set the speed to something ridiculous like 500).

Hmm, might be problem with your gfx board as I have not heard of this before. What system are you on? Micro-A1 oder A1? What gfx board?

Any ideas?

P.S.: Also I get frequent crashes with one script in particular---sometimes I can get a GrimReaper report, but other times it just freezes. Would you want me to e-mail you the crash log?

Better send me the script so that I can see if it crashes here, too!

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:51:46 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Andreas,

My system is a µA1 with the built in gfx card (Radeon 7000).

I'll send the offending script to your e-mail.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:38:35 +0100

Hi Andreas,

My system is a µA1 with the built in gfx card (Radeon 7000).

I'll send the offending script to your e-mail.

It crashed here, too. Normally, I don't work my through 30kb of Hollywood code but your script crashed Hollywood and that really should not happen. So I looked step-by-step through your script and I think I found the problem.

I will send a fixed version to your private e-mail. Please check if it works now with the MacLikeDock script.

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:53:22 -0700 (PDT)

That fixed the crashing problem completely. Great work!

There may be another problem though with some of Hollywood's constants. For MoveDisplay(#CENTER, #BOTTOM) sometimes it moves it down 50% too far. This can be seen in the script that I sent you before. (Try setting the Location Vertical to "Bottom" and the Vertical Offset to 0 in the "Preferences" file.

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:12:34 -0000

Andreas, On another interesting note, this problem with MoveDisplay() only seems to show up with this one program (the one that I sent you). But I can get the display to move to the correct possition if I quickly move my mouse down to the display area before it displays. Without doing this, it displays too low (off the bottom of the screen).

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:20:42 -0700 (PDT)

OK, the MoveDisplay() problem is more unpredictable than I thought at first. Try this simple script.

Code: Select all

@DISPLAY {Borderless=True, Mode="Windowed", Fixed=True}

EscapeQuit(TRUE)

width=GetAttribute(#DISPLAY,0,#ATTRMAXWIDTH)
hieght=GetAttribute(#DISPLAY,0,#ATTRMAXHEIGHT)

ChangeDisplaySize(1,hieght)
MoveDisplay(#RIGHT, #CENTER)

Repeat
 WaitEvent
Forever

This script creates a display that looks like a vertical black line with a width of 1 pixel; and SHOULD move the display all the way to the right (which for my screen resolution would be 1280). But when I run this script, it only moves to x=959.

How does the above script work for the rest of you guys?

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:28:30 +0100

OK, the MoveDisplay() problem is more unpredictable than I thought at first. [...]

No need to do further tests. It's a bug and already fixed.

I'll release an update for Hollywood 2.5 with these fixes when I release Designer 2.0 which will be very very soon.

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:43:50 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks!

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:02:33 -0000

Hi Andreas,

I'm sorry to keep pestering you about this issue; but I was wondering if you are going to be able to release the fixed version of Hollywood 2.5 any time soon.

BTW: Thank you for updating Designer to version 2.0. Having the GUI interface makes doing basic object placement very quick and easy.