current beta crashes when opening a sub-window

[Dingenskirchen]

Maybe it's just me, but I simply don't get behind why the current Beta 2.3b23 worked perfectly fine two days ago and rendered a full 2500x2000 image - and today it keeps exiting without any comment when I try to open a sub-window like "render photograph" or even "about". Mind you, this only happens after I have loaded my project, which - again - recently worked perfectly fine for this Beta.

I just tested opening a sub-window before loading my project, and that seemed to "unlock" the windows and kept them available after the loading of the project file. Then, everything was fine and rendering worked.

It's just that opening my file is usually the very first thing I do after launching the program. Most usually, I have SH3D launched by double-clicking my project file, so nothing "happens" inside the program before the loading process.

Can you reproduce this glitch..?

[Dingenskirchen]

EDIT: I just cross-checked v2.2final (both OpenGL and DirectX), which does not show the above behaviour - so it seems to have to do with the changes in the v2.3 beta.

[Puybaret]

Even if the version 2.3 Beta should still be able to run, it isn't available anymore.
Please replace it by the released version.
Read the history and the last blog page for more information.

[Dingenskirchen]

Will do. Thanks a lot for developing!

[Dingenskirchen]

The 2.3 final works better, but not completely error-free. The same problem still occurs occasionally. Since the first opening of any sub-window always takes quite long (several seconds, even if it is just the "about" window) and from then on they open much quicker, I suspect some basic preparations on the first opening interfere with something else in SH3D.

I also found that one (and only one) of my projects now persistently crashes the DirectX version of v2.3final, whereas the OpenGL version works fine. The crash occurs on loading the project and seems to have to do with the textures: on loading, 2 or 3 object previews appear in the plan, then floor and wall textures are displayed in the 3D view, and before any more furniture previews are shown, SH3D exits without message.

What's particular about the project causing all the trouble:

- slanted walls (partly with textures)
- one "box" object that I use to display tiles on a part of a slanted wall protrudes beyond the wall, penetrating the invisible slanted ceiling

Everything else should be pretty generic...

[hansmex]

Dinges:

Can you share the file with us? Try www.mediafire.com if you need free hosting.
It might be interesting to have a look at it and see how it behaves on other platforms.

Hans

[Dingenskirchen]

here we are (13MB):

http://www.mediafire.com/?zzwjtywcxjm

[hansmex]

Dinges, Emmanuel:

The file opens without any problem in Ubuntu 11.04 beta with SH3D 2.3.

Hans

[Dingenskirchen]

Yes, I would have expected that. The problem seems to be restricted to the DirectX version, which is only available on Windows, right? Hmmm...

[Puybaret]

The file opens correctly under Mac OS X and Windows XP with OpenGL.
I'll try to see if it crashes with DirectX.

By the way, nice file! [;)]