Beware! GTX2 can cause problems

Len Morgan len-morgan at crcom.net
Tue Mar 18 08:50:28 EDT 2008


2.1b40

Petrides, M.D. Marian wrote:
> Which beta were you using when you had problems?
>
> On Mar 18, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Len Morgan wrote:
>
>> I've started having the same problem: Massive slow down of the whole 
>> system when I've got GLX2 running.  This was after deleting the 
>> preferences file.  To try and solve another problem, I was advised to 
>> go back to the stable version.  After the problem had been resolved, 
>> I went back to the latest beta and that's when the slow down 
>> started.  Sometimes it gets to the point of being almost unusable.
>>
>> len morgan
>>
>> Dave wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It doesn't appear to be doing that on my system, also it started 
>>> running so slowly so as it be unusable, so I uninstalled it. Spent a 
>>> weird hour trying to figure out where my changes had got to last night!
>>>
>>> All the Best
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On 17 Mar 2008, at 14:28, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mar 17, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Dave wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ran into this and it caused me no end of grief, I'm using two 
>>>>> versions of RunRev, 2.8.1.472 and the 2.9 Beta. I also use GTX2 
>>>>> and this is where the confusion came in. If you edit a script in 
>>>>> one version of RunRev/GTX2, then open the Script in the version of 
>>>>> RunRev/GTX2, the changes don't appear! I think that GTX2 must be 
>>>>> caching the Script Source code somewhere that is Private to the 
>>>>> Version of RunRev you are currently using?
>>>>
>>>> In addition to Sarah and Jerry's comments I would also add that 
>>>> GLX2 stores the script you are working on (hasn't been compiled 
>>>> yet) in the object itself. So the script you are working on follows 
>>>> that object around. So opening the script of the object in another 
>>>> version of Rev running GLX2 should still show the script in 
>>>> progress (done this plenty of times myself).
>>>>
>>>> Opening the script in the Rev script editor will NOT show the 
>>>> working script, however, since Rev doesn't know about GLX2 custom 
>>>> properties.
>>>>
>>>> So if you aren't seeing changes as you move between two versions of 
>>>> Rev that are both using GLX2 then my guess is that you have the 
>>>> stack open in both versions at the same time and aren't reloading 
>>>> the stack into memory. If a stack file has been loaded in memory 
>>>> and you change the stack file on disk the changes on disk will not 
>>>> show up in the stack in memory until it is reloaded. Is it possible 
>>>> that this is what is happening on your end?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Trevor DeVore
>>>> Blue Mango Learning Systems
>>>> www.bluemangolearning.com    -    www.screensteps.com
>>>>
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