File Dialog becomes unresponsive

[georg.viehoever]

Hi,

after opening and saving a lot of different files, the Load/Save as.. dialog becomes unresponsive, meaning that it does no longer properly update, sometimes does not display files, does not show the typed file name etc.. This happens after manually opening/closing 50 files or so, and has been observed on different occasions. This is in Win7-x64 with fully "patched" PI1.61.

Georg

PS: Restarting PI helps, but of course images are lost....

[Niall Saunders]

Hi Georg,

I had something similar in v1.6.0 - where even changing an image identifier caused PI to go into "wait a bit, I'm doing it" mode for a few seconds each time (Vista64). Again, this was resolved by rebooting PI - but I tend to only reboot PI when I have to reboot my PC, and even that doesn't sometimes happen for MONTHS (as I have said in the past, my darling wife thinks that my operating system IS actually PixInsight, and that PI is clever enough to do all the OTHER things that her PC does, like email, the internet, etc.)

However, I haven't encountered your 'slow-down', yet, since changing to v1.6.1

[georg.viehoever]

Hi Niall,

PI itself still works. It is only the file dialog that becomes unusable.

Georg

[Niall Saunders]

Well, that certainly seems different to my previous experience.

So far, as I have said, I am NOT detecting any significant 'slow-downs' in the new incarnation - but I am still waiting for the acquisition of enough new data to sit down and work through a 'full procedure' in PI - I last captured a photon in MAY

[georg.viehoever]

Workaround: Switch off the use of "native file dialog" in Preferences...
Georg

[Nocturnal]

Hmm, I thought native dialogs had to be turned on as a workaround for a different issue I forget what that was though and it was a while back so may not be an issue anymore.

[georg.viehoever]

Catch-22 ?

[Niall Saunders]

I just double-checked my setup.

I have NativeDialogues 'Enabled' - but I have no idea what the 'default setting' actually is (and I am not too keen to 'find out the hard way' )

[Juan Conejero]

Hi there!

(And by the way, welcome to the new new members of the Jedi Order, including a Lord Sith that I've seen, one that seems to be selling cookies or something like that) 

No catch-22 here, multiplatform (non-native) file dialogs do work very well on all platforms, AFAIK.

This definitely looks like a Windows-specific problem. I must recognize I don't use Windows on a regular basis (well, I use it only for testing purposes), but I haven't seen anything similar on Vista x64 after a long (to my Windows standards) testing session.

The fact is that native dialogs are not controlled by PixInsight in any way. PI only reads native dialog results after they have worked. It is the sole responsibility of the operating system to create, show and manage them, so ...

[georg.viehoever]

...This definitely looks like a Windows-specific problem. I must recognize I don't use Windows on a regular basis (well, I use it only for testing purposes), but I haven't seen anything similar on Vista x64 after a long (to my Windows standards) testing session.
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Indeed, I have not yet seen something similar on Linux. It happens after loading/saving many images. Anyway, I will make a screenshot when I see it the next time. For the moment, I am quite happy with the Qt dialogs.

Georg