"scheduler queue is full" during Dialog call

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#1

Hello all,
I have an app running a Routine that clocks a general update at 24 frames per second. Its UI sometimes invokes a Dialog window for getting/setting file names. If such a Dialog is left open for too long, the post window starts to fill up with “scheduler queue is full” messages. I have tried enclosing the calls to Dialog in { }.forkIfNeeded but it seems to make no difference. Does anyone know how to handle this? Must I pause the AppClock before opening any Dialog?
sternsc

#2

You can’t pause a clock. You can pause things running on the clock (e.g. your 24 fps thread).

I wasn’t aware that Dialogs would cause AppClock to get clogged, but the first thing I would try here is to stop the 24 fps routine when opening the dialog, and restart it after the user finishes.

If that gets rid of the errors, then I guess you wouldn’t want the ui to freeze… that would probably have to be a bug report :man_shrugging:

Btw which OS? The behavior may be different depending on platform.

hjh

#3

FWIW, in Linux I was unable to reproduce AppClock blockage using this code – opening the Dialog has no effect on other items scheduled on AppClock (running it for 2-3 minutes now). But it may still happen on other platforms.

(
w = Window("test", Rect(800, 200, 500, 400)).front;

u = UserView()
.drawFunc_(Routine {
	var theta = 0;
	var color = Color(0.6, 1, 0.6);
	var center;
	var r;
	loop {
		center = u.bounds.center;
		r = sin(theta / 2pi) * 0.9;
		Pen.color_(color)
		.fillOval(
			Rect.aboutPoint(
				Point(
					center.x * (1 + (cos(theta) * r)),
					center.y * (1 + (sin(theta) * r))
				),
				15, 15
			)
		);
		theta = theta + 0.1;
		\ok.yield;
	};
});

w.layout = VLayout(u);

r = {
	loop {
		u.refresh;
		0.05.wait;
	}
}.fork(AppClock);

w.onClose = { r.stop };
)


// while the above is running:
Dialog.openPanel({ |path| path.postcs });

hjh

#4

Thanks a lot, @jamshark70, I will experiment a bit more with stop/starting the Routine. This is on Windows 10, and all versions of SC so far.
Right now I have a more troublesome issue on MacOS, but I will start a different thread for that.
/sternsc