Author Topic: DBE bug?  (Read 3939 times)

Offline esordini

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DBE bug?
« on: 2016 January 05 01:46:08 »
Dear all,
I think I have found a small bug in the DBE process. Apologies if this has already been reported.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

0) Open an image, open the DBE dialog box, generate a good number of samples (say, at least 200 or 300) throughout the image. Turn on "track sample in the target view".
1) Go to the target view. Select the current sample and nudge it around if needed.
2) Go back to the DBE dialog box, and click directly the right arrow button to move on to the next sample.
3) Repeat steps #1 and #2 for a few times. The actual selected sample will occasionally and randomly jump to a much higher index without any valid reason (say, from i to i+50 or even i+100), while IMHO it should always advance to the next one.

Other misc info:
* This bug has actually been there for a while, although it looked like it was (almost) gone in the releases up to mid-2015, but it has made a full comeback in the two latest PI releases.
* Another fellow PI user was able to reproduce it
* Apparently the "failure rate" will decrease somewhat if one first clicks on the DBE dialog box caption and then presses the right arrow button.
* Latest PI version, 64-bit Windows 7

Last (partly OT) question: is there a way to advance to the next sample with a hotkey directly in the image view, i.e. without having to go back to the DBE dialog box?

Thanks in advance,
Emmanuele

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Re: DBE bug?
« Reply #1 on: 2016 January 05 09:07:29 »
i have seen this behavior as well but i forgot to report it.

rob

Offline Juan Conejero

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Re: DBE bug?
« Reply #2 on: 2016 January 07 03:16:09 »
I haven't been able to reproduce this problem in several tests. However, a new dynamic background modeling tool will be released soon, which will supersede DBE, so this problem won't be fixed in the current version. GUI code will be rewritten in the new tool, so this won't happen. Thank you for reporting anyway, and sorry for the inconvenience.
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Offline astroedo

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Re: DBE bug?
« Reply #3 on: 2016 January 07 12:02:24 »
Very happy to hear about it Juan!

I can't wait for the new tool!

By the way I've experimented the same problem: Latest PI Release on Windows 10 Home, Intel Core Duo processor, 4 GB RAM.

Bye

Edoardo

Offline chboing

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Re: DBE bug?
« Reply #4 on: 2018 November 13 12:50:07 »
Hello, i realize this topic is really old, but i still experience this bug today. Since i'm quite new to PI i don't know if this new DBE tools has been released or not, but the problem is still here in current verion, and it's quite annoying to be honest 
Also, this task of checking each sample, I don't know if i'm doing it right, but I find it quite painful, it would greatly benefit some shorcut keys.
the 6 keys that would radically change things for me would be :
2 keys for next/previous sample, and 4 arrow keys to move the currently selected sample arround to dodge stars.
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