System info, etc: Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3. I'm using CF 2.2b.
I dusted off CF for the first time in several months recently, and ran into an odd issue.
Sometimes, for some reason I couldn't pinpoint, my files would stop accepting 'custom' seed values -- that is, if I entered a new XYZ value in the seed window, and hit 'Render', it would just render the next image sequentially, as if I hadn't changed the seed value at all.
I could temporarily fix this issue by copy-pasting my script into a fresh document window, which would then work properly and accept non-sequential seed values, but I knew this wasn't working as intended.
This afternoon, I was able to replicate the issue:
Under preferences: When Context Free Opens: [x] do nothing.
Step 1: Open a previously-saved document.
Step 2: Type a different seed value into the window.
Step 3: Hit render. Note that the different value is not rendered -- the sequential value is, instead.
To avoid the issue:
Step 1: Open a blank OR previously-saved document.
Step 2: Open another previously-saved document.
Step 3 and up: In the second document, everything then works as it should. Even if you then close the first document, the second one continues to work fine.
Other info: If you set CF to start with a blank document or the welcome message, this doesn't happen. It only seems to happen if you set it to start with no document at all.
I hope this is enough information to be helpful in fixing the issue. It's not a critical error, of course, but I wanted to report it anyhow.
--k.
Possible rendering/seed bug in 2.2b -- info on replicating.
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Help > About Context Free tells me: 2.2 (v15)
It would be the beta that was available early last year (Mar/Apr), and I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't check for a newer one before I started tinkering again. I'll go get the version at the Download Beta page so you don't get any other Ghost Bugs of Betas Past.
Apologies!
It would be the beta that was available early last year (Mar/Apr), and I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't check for a newer one before I started tinkering again. I'll go get the version at the Download Beta page so you don't get any other Ghost Bugs of Betas Past.
Apologies!
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