Re: Latest Release crashing - a lot.

Skef Iterum <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Aug 2019 08:58:54 -0700
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What a coincidence—I don't get paid to fix bugs in FontForge ...

Skef

On 8/6/19 5:36 AM, Ben Griffin wrote:
>   (I don't get paid to use FF!).
>
> -B.
>
>
>> On 6 Aug 2019, at 07:38, Skef Iterum<[email protected]>  wrote:
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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>What a coincidence<span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84);
        font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
        font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
        font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
        normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;
        text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
        word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
        background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
        initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
        !important; float: none;"></span>—I don't get paid to fix bugs
      in FontForge ...</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/6/19 5:36 AM, Ben Griffin wrote:<br>
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> (I don't get paid to use FF!).

-B.


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        <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 6 Aug 2019, at 07:38, Skef Iterum <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]" moz-do-not-send="true">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a> wrote:

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:
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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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