Build 4163 messes up window management

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Hey @brad - not sure what you have done in 4163, but on my system, it messes massively with the display of Cantabile.

  • resizing the Window doesn’t work at all - Cantabile display freezing and flickering for 5-10 seconds, then window remaining at its old size
  • when opening Preferences, main Cantabile window turns completely grey, freezing for 5-10 seconds, then re-appears. In that time, Cantabile is un-responsive. Doesn’t always happen, but just sometimes.

Reverting to 4162 - no more resizing issues.

Looks like the sizing and positioning fixes made in 4163 have some nasty side-effects…

Cheers,

Torsten

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Here’s another one … but not sure it’s the v4.163 upgrade:

Cantabile is maximized (but not full-screen) I double click on the title bar to de-maximize, and get:

It does eventually stop (12ish seconds) and I can double-click again on the title and return to maximized.

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yup - similar behavior here…

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Rolling back to 4.161 … I assume that’s as easy as running the install EXE? (I’ve never actually rolled back a Cantabile version before)

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Similarly here…when I load a song within a pre-loaded setlist, the whole Cantabile screen goes black and my mouse pointer goes into spinning wait mode. It eventually recovers and resumes normal service 20 or so seconds later. Reverting.

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Sorry, guys, that may be my fault, @brad was fixing something for me and it seems it’s messed up other stuff…

P

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exactly, just run the installer for the previous version.

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Hey Guys,

Sorry about this and thanks for reporting. I’ve been testing here but can’t reproduce any issues. Weird.

In the meantime I’ve retracted the build until I can figure it out.

Brad

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OK, I think I might have reproduced a much milder version of what you guys were seeing.

If someone who was having the extreme version of this issue, please give this a test and let me know:

https://download.cantabilesoftware.com/SetupCantabile-4164.exe

(and if it’s still happening, just rollback to 4162 again)

Brad

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Hi @brad,

With 4164, resizing the Cantabile window works again. There is still a bit of funniness when opening the Options window - the windows shows, then flashes white, then builds correctly.

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Thanks Torsten, glad it’s working again.

Regarding the white flash in the options Window, I noticed that too. It’s a side effect of another change I made to reduce flicker when resizing windows. If you compare 4162 to 4164 when resizing the main window you’ll see what I mean. Not exactly sure why the options window is flashing white, but I decided I prefer that to the resizing flicker.

Brad

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Hi @Brad,

I’m on build 4164 and before 4163.

Perception is funny, I did not notice the white flash before, but now that I see it, I cannot not see it. It also happens when you open Cantabile and on the Save As dialog as well.

Good luck, John

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As long as it’s not an indication of something going wrong, I can live with it. Just feels funky and a bit “un-finished”…

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Flickering is cured by 4.164.
Order is restored.
All is right with the World.

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I’ll take a closer look at it and see if I can figure out where it’s coming from.

I’m pretty sure Cantabile never actually renders a white background so it must be coming from a WNDCLASS hbrBackground or something similar. I wonder if it could also just be that Windows desktop compositor just uses white if the window is slow to draw.