White screen of death
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I wish Su wouldnt lock up every time you try and do something taxing. A little progress bar or something would be cool, or anything that would show you SU is still alive and just busy rather than on the verge of imminent destruction.
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i know what you mean
but i can tell you that in the good times of SketchUp we rather felt the verge of imminent construction.
oh well, those times. -
@remus said:
I wish Su wouldnt lock up every time you try and do something taxing. A little progress bar or something would be cool, or anything that would show you SU is still alive and just busy rather than on the verge of imminent destruction.
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+10.0000
WSOD: White Screen Of Death.
Now that's going to be an official description besides 'bug splat' -
would be awesome. a progress bar and estimated time (like several rubies do it already).
and perhaps in addition to that the possibility to abort processes, when they take too long. -
@plot-paris said:
would be awesome. a progress bar and estimated time (like several rubies do it already).
and perhaps in addition to that the possibility to abort processes, when they take too long.re: WSOD
You know, unfortunately this isn't a Google/Sketchup issue. Its a really annoying wrinkle of Windows that if you have a program working very hard, the Application windows appears to get repainted white - I find I get the same thing when I'm running LightUp while screencasting. I have progress bars etc in LightUp but they simply don't get 'run' by windows when you're really driving the CPU.
So, just to be clear, I'm pretty certain this isn't some 'bad programming' by Google.
As to aborting tasks, part of the problem is that the program never gets that "please abort" message because if you're really driving the...well, you know the rest!
Adam
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would multi-threading help with this problem (because you can put the calculation in a different thread than the main window of SU)?
(I keep my fingers crossed for SU7
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damm windows.
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don't blame Windows for poor programming of a software - the White screen of death is definitely a SU problem.
also you don't need drive the CPU to the max only for your software - I choose a responsive UI anytime than 5 second faster, unresponsive one. -
The whole point of pre-emptive multitasking is you can do what the hell you like and the system will ensure everything gets a fair crack of the whip - including the window system. Thats how every system apart from MS Windows works where you have to jump through hoops to allow users to continue to be able to use the UI and not freeze up. Its a bit sad.
Adam
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