Beware! GTX2 can cause problems
Jerry Daniels
jerry at daniels-mara.com
Tue Mar 18 10:23:44 EDT 2008
Len, there are quite a few people using that version without that
problem or anything like it. Many of us use GLX2 many hours a day, day
after day. One wonders what it is about your system that's causing it.
Memory? Some specific to your machine?
On Mar 18, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Len Morgan wrote:
> 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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