by aboelen » Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:49 am
Hi,
It might be related to the bug I posted earlier today but the pattern is a bit different and repeatable.
When performing multiple actions (ripping a CD, collecting artwork, editing tags more or less simultaneously) repeatedly a follow up window from one of the actions (like a window to confirm the ripping action or a window to agree on moving the artwork to the new music file location) gets focus but does not show. When I click the mouse on the taskbar icon, I can see that window is open but I can not get to that window, there is no way to get it on top of the window stack. While that window is open (and unreachable) it locks several other functions in MM's main window and main menus. I have tried several routes (also in an attempt to recreate the previous error) where I first initiated the ripping, then an artwork action then a tag search and the next run some other order of steps. In every case the error occurs - but not consequently after the same amount of steps! - and many functions are greyed out but with every route more or less different sets of functions are greyed out.
Unfortunately MM does not see itself as being stuck up until these steps so there is no error-log to send. When I tried to close down the program (with the icon in the app-tray), an error message was generated (with code 404C5... the last part was unreadable due to a button from one of the open windows got stuck on top of the error message window) but I saw no reaction when pushing the 'send' button. So I assume that log did not reach you.
It looks like the follow up window is stuck in a loop, waiting for user input, where the main MM window is waiting for a reply from that loop locking anything that might affect that reply while in the meantime withholding the other window for getting into view. Might it be an idea to position a pop-up window alongside the main window instead of on top of it? Coming to think of this, I remember that in one of the previous MM4 versions the same kind of problem arose, where the window that needed user input for the next step was locked behind the MM4 main window... it might thus be an old bug reappearing.
regards,
Alexander
Hi,
It might be related to the bug I posted earlier today but the pattern is a bit different and repeatable.
When performing multiple actions (ripping a CD, collecting artwork, editing tags more or less simultaneously) repeatedly a follow up window from one of the actions (like a window to confirm the ripping action or a window to agree on moving the artwork to the new music file location) gets focus but does not show. When I click the mouse on the taskbar icon, I can see that window is open but I can not get to that window, there is no way to get it on top of the window stack. While that window is open (and unreachable) it locks several other functions in MM's main window and main menus. I have tried several routes (also in an attempt to recreate the previous error) where I first initiated the ripping, then an artwork action then a tag search and the next run some other order of steps. In every case the error occurs - but not consequently after the same amount of steps! - and many functions are greyed out but with every route more or less different sets of functions are greyed out.
Unfortunately MM does not see itself as being stuck up until these steps so there is no error-log to send. When I tried to close down the program (with the icon in the app-tray), an error message was generated (with code 404C5... the last part was unreadable due to a button from one of the open windows got stuck on top of the error message window) but I saw no reaction when pushing the 'send' button. So I assume that log did not reach you.
It looks like the follow up window is stuck in a loop, waiting for user input, where the main MM window is waiting for a reply from that loop locking anything that might affect that reply while in the meantime withholding the other window for getting into view. Might it be an idea to position a pop-up window alongside the main window instead of on top of it? Coming to think of this, I remember that in one of the previous MM4 versions the same kind of problem arose, where the window that needed user input for the next step was locked behind the MM4 main window... it might thus be an old bug reappearing.
regards,
Alexander