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mute ·
Obviously the Module search feature isn't ready yet, but I was testing with it and during searches I would hit the X button to close them out.
After I did this, every module group I clicked on was empty... I assume this has something to do with a filter the search is doing (even though I closed (X) the search) so I went back to the search box and put in a search ("a") that would definitly turn up results if it was working...
Couldn't fix it.
It gets worse.
After I closed out SynthMaker in hopes the modules would return, I opened it again, or at least tried to. It started to appear (the basic ms window shell started to draw) but then it crashed when the Form bodies started to draw in SM, and disappeared completely. After this I had to CTRL-ALT-DEL kill the hung process.
Here's the steps that brought me to this point:
Opened SynthMaker
Created a New Schematic
Changed the Modules list to the "A" circle, I think it's for 'area'? Can't remember.
Figured I'd check out the search feature, clicked in it, typed in MIDI pressed Enter, nothing happend.
Pressed the X button and the search box cleared out and appeared again with the centered text "Search"
Tried it again, but searched for "a" nothing changed. Pressed X again.
Clicked on the Externals group, it was empty, clicked on the OSC group, it was empty... etc.. The only modules I could get to list were the ones I had open before I tried searching (the A button group). And to get back to that I would have to double click on any of the other module group icons.
Closed SM hoping that it would fix itself by restarting the program.
Double clicked the SM shortcut.
Window starts to appear, but as soon as it begins drawing... disappears.
Process is hung, so I CTRL-ALT-DEL it.
I haven't yet rebooted to see if it will be ok, because I wanted to get this in before I forget the exact actions I took that caused this bug/crash. At this moment I still cannot open SynthMaker.
malc ·
Hi mute,
Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear that your first experience with SynthMaker has resulted in such problems. Well get this sorted as soon as we can.
mute wrote: Changed the Modules list to the "A" circle, I think it's for 'area'? Can't remember.
Figured I'd check out the search feature, clicked in it, typed in MIDI pressed Enter, nothing happend.
Pressed the X button and the search box cleared out and appeared again with the centered text "Search"
Tried it again, but searched for "a" nothing changed. Pressed X again.
Clicked on the Externals group, it was empty, clicked on the OSC group, it was empty... etc.. The only modules I could get to list were the ones I had open before I tried searching (the A button group). And to get back to that I would have to double click on any of the other module group icons.
Starting with the steps you took (thanks for provinding these - just the sort of info we need). You're right about the Area filter, this will make the toolbox only show components with Area inputs or outputs.
The Search feature should work properly. It combines with any filter bar selections. So searching for MIDI with the Area filter still on should give you nothing as there are no components with the word MIDI in their name or with MIDI connectors that also have an Area connector.
One point to note about the search - it happens as you type, you don't need to press enter/return.
If you have the Area filter still on and type a in the search box you won't see any change as all the components with Area connectors will match this search string by virtue of the fact that the letter 'a' appears in 'area'.
The External and OSC groups have no components with Area components so once again this is the correct behaviour providing the Area type filter is still selected.
So as you can see, with the group, type and serach filters all working together in this way, what you're seeing is the intended behaviour. You can cancel all filters by pressing the escape key first and then any filter you apply immediately after will work on the complete toolbox.
If this doesn't make sense or you feel the behaviour should be different please let me know, I'd be very interested to hear what you think.
mute wrote: Closed SM hoping that it would fix itself by restarting the program.
Double clicked the SM shortcut.
Window starts to appear, but as soon as it begins drawing... disappears.
Process is hung, so I CTRL-ALT-DEL it.
Now this is a problem. I found the same thing. I've never seen this before so it's great that you found it. I'll need to look more into it and get back to you. If it's any consolation I found that after a minute or so I could run the software again with no problem. I hope you found the same.
Thanks again for letting us know about this.
malc ·
I've tried to reproduce the problem again and I just can't get it to happen again. I got it to work (well, not work) the first time but since then following the same steps everything has worked just fine.
Have you had the same problem happen again? Have you been able to run SynthMaker again since you got locked out?
Thanks.
mute ·
sorry for my slow response.. i'll check this out tonight when I get home from work.
🙂
malc ·
No problem 🙂
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