[Ardour-Dev] config wizard [was : Re: video timeline patch testing]

[Robin Gareus]

On 07/17/2010 01:43 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On 07/17/2010 09:35 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>> On 07/17/2010 09:14 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Shirkey
>>>> <pshirkey at boosthardware.com>  wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> With the latest a3 I am finding that everytime I start I am being
>>>>> asked to
>>>>> go through the wizard process.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am also not presented with a list of previous sessions to work from.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a known issue?
>>>> no. it should write a file called .a3 into ~/.config/ardour3 and won't
>>>> enter the wizard after that
>>>
>>>
>>> I see the file in the correct location but there is nothing in it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, I was unable to close a session correctly but killing it with
>> ctrl+c has resulted in a .a3 file being written at last.
>>
>> I can now see the option to choose an existing session. I am seeing
>> ardour stall while loading the other sessions which I have just
>> created so I am only working with new ones each time now. I have not
>> tested with older sessions so these results are only from sessions
>> created in the past 24 hours.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> A bit more usability testing.
> 
> 
> 1: open session, a3 hang, force close session = no config saved. empty
> .a3 file
> 2: open session, do something, close, hang = as above
> 3: open session do something force close (ctrl+c) = .a3 file saved
> correctly
> 4: open session, attempt to load existing session = hang
> 5: open session, attempt to create new session with same name as old
> session, dialog asking to load exisiting session = hang
> 
> 
> Not sure if you are aware of these items but posted here for your
> reference.

I can not reproduce any of these.

Is this the videotimline branch? Please try to reproduce it with vanilla
ardour3.

I've also noticed that if header-files are changed ./waf not always
re-compiles all necessary objects. I had a couple of unexplainable
segfaults and also hangs which went away after a ./waf clean && ./waf

robin