Re: Latest Release crashing - a lot.

Skef Iterum <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Aug 2019 23:38:56 -0700
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In your experience are these things that have changed since the previous 
release or did you switch from an earlier one?

Skef

On 8/5/19 11:29 PM, Ben Griffin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So there's a lot of crashes with the latest FF release on Mac OS X (10.14.6)
> The crash seems to be within some call stack of libPango - the actual trace is at home, so I will post it later.
>
> There's also a persistent issue with focus on overlapping windows - it may be an x-windows thing but the front window and the active window are not always the same in font-forge, which often leads to strange behaviours - a common issue I have faced is when my active window is behind the the front window and I inadvertently open a menu/submenu which sometimes causes the application to crash.
>
> Another issue is that when there's a deep dependency tree, the source glyph becomes very slow to edit, as it seems all the dependencies are being updated on each edit. It would be awesome if I could turn background updating off - my workaround is to have a proxy dependent glyph which I disconnect from the master glyph - but it is a bit of a headache to have to map (in the current case) 30 or so masters through proxies..
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    <p>In your experience are these things that have changed since the
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/5/19 11:29 PM, Ben Griffin wrote:<br>
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,

So there's a lot of crashes with the latest FF release on Mac OS X (10.14.6)
The crash seems to be within some call stack of libPango - the actual trace is at home, so I will post it later.

There's also a persistent issue with focus on overlapping windows - it may be an x-windows thing but the front window and the active window are not always the same in font-forge, which often leads to strange behaviours - a common issue I have faced is when my active window is behind the the front window and I inadvertently open a menu/submenu which sometimes causes the application to crash.

Another issue is that when there's a deep dependency tree, the source glyph becomes very slow to edit, as it seems all the dependencies are being updated on each edit. It would be awesome if I could turn background updating off - my workaround is to have a proxy dependent glyph which I disconnect from the master glyph - but it is a bit of a headache to have to map (in the current case) 30 or so masters through proxies..

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