Author Topic: Decimal separator changes in processes: Ripley 1.8.1087 64bit on Xubuntu 12.04  (Read 3129 times)

Offline bafrog

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Hi all,

think I found a bug which I can reproduce in Ripley 1.8.1087 64bit on Xubuntu 12.04.

Usually all sliders in processes use dots as decimal separator when starting up PI.
The following behaviour can be reproduced on my machine:
When working with the colour calibration process I switch to the reference documentation while leaving the process window open.
When switching back from the embedded documentation explorer to the process any slider I touch switches to commas for decimal separators
followed by errors:
Invalid character(s) in numeric literal:
0?,0100000

I have attached a small screenshot for illustration.

This behaviour persists unless PI is closed and restarted.
My language setting in Xfce is german - but there are nowhere regional input schemes as known from Windows which
define decimal separators system wide.

Unfortunately I saved my project data after the bug occurred and messed my project file -.xosm. Loading the project fails.
When I open the -.xosm in a text editor all decimal separators are commas - and loading the project icons and project data results in parse errors
for float numbers.
I attached a compressed -.xosm file for illustration. It's a bit sad I lost all my process icons. I'll try to reformat the floats in a text editor and maybe
have it loaded in PI again.

I worked with data and files completely processed within PI - so no interaction with meta-data manipulated by other software.
(raw picture data originated from a Canon DSLR -
it is not intention but a funny coincidence that I deal with a picture of M45 :)
Think I will try to avoid the trap by not using built-in reference documentation browser.
Hopefully the bug report is useful to help fixing the behaviour.

Regards
Martin

Offline Alejandro Tombolini

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Hi Martin,

It happened to me some times but I couldn't reproduce it. Solved by resetting PI starting it while pressing CTRL key

Saludos. Alejandro.

Offline bafrog

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Hi Alejandro,
yep - getting rid of the error is easy. The only trap one may step into ones (as I did) is to save the project - worried of
losing the steps done so far. It is realy nasty that all data written afterwards contains the faulty format
and corrupts the data. I couldn't restore the -.xml data with a text editor since list separator and decimal separators were identical
after saving.
However - nothing that keeps me from working and using PI.
Cheers Martin