Odd behaviour with Filter Updates

I've just finished updating FF to v1.011 on my home machine (didn't use that version for a while). Upon checking for filter updates I am alerted to 'Grin Inc.' and 'Cut it out' being available for updating. So I select 'Grin Inc.' and hit download. All seems to work fine. Out of habit, I immediately navigate to the category 'My Favorites' (which is displayed in bold now, and - as I notice milliseconds later - is also the ONLY category displayed that way) to check the filter. Crash!!! Bug report sent.

I restart FF and proceed to updating 'Cut It Out'. The download appears to work fine and I get the usual pop-up that a filter has been updated. Then I realize that none of the categories is displayed in bold, as if the filter just hadn't updated. Also, the filter thumbnails display right next to the categories is completely empty. So I select the category where 'Cut It Out' would be located and the thumbnails start loading. I check 'Filter Updates' again - and behold! - 'Cut It Out' is still available for updating. Repeating the update process about ten times without success, I decide to close FF and restart it. As it turns out, 'Cut It Out' had indeed been updated, and the 'Creative' category is now displayed in bold with a (1) appended. Checking 'Filter Updates' also reveals no more available updates. Phew! The Update 'oddyssey' is over!

I'm no stranger to getting this type of behavior.....which seems to be part of the ongoing resource leak problem.....

I've never experienced this error before, so I'd wager it has got something to do with v1.011.

i was running 1.010 on a win xp machine and had no problems updating to 1.011. i updated by going to 'download more filters' and it prompted me that i needed to upgrade before i could download. i let it go ahead and all went smoothly. i say this just to let the coders know that some of us did upgrade without any problems.

but, i did encounter one, very small change in operation of FF that i dont like. i want really call it a bug, just a small change. i used to be to, on any slider, hit the slider somewhere other than where the pointer was currently pointed and hold down the mouse while i did this and i could 'grab' the pointer and continue to move it further than the point at which i grabbed it. now i cant. the pointer will now only move to where i had my mouse cursor pointed and stays right there even while still holding down the mouse button. i have to now click on it again to drag it where i want. so, a small change, indeed, but one i miss. i liked it the old way.

Since it seems that we are not all experiencing the same problems, I was wondering if there are "optimal" advanced OS settings (buffers, memory, etc.) that should be used for best performance of FF???

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Crapadilla wrote: slider manipulation 'feel' has changed

Yeah.....but I thought it was part of the resource leak problem because I've been getting it all along.....and I think the "stickiness" is definitely a bug because it should work and act exactly the same as it does in all other programs.....

Yup, the same here. After updating filters, the FF 1.011 needs to be closed to clean up the update list. I didn't notice that before in the previous version.

Thanks everyone.

I'll forward this thread to the developer in charge of the Filter Library (updates and favorites are within his realm) as soon as he is back to work. We are having a kind of intra-office epidemic -- three of the developers are out of office with flu

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Crapadilla wrote: It just happened again, this time on my studio machine. I downloaded the 'Pixel Scape ™' update. FF showed the usual pop-up the the filter had downloaded successfully, but only the Favorites category was displayed in bold and followed by a '(1)'. Upon selecting it and dragging the scroll-bar, FF crashed to desktop, with no bug report generated. Upon restarting FF all displays as it should.

Same thing again on my home machine, only now FF crashed to desktop when I selected the bold 'My Favorites' category (where I keep 'Pixel Scape ™').

I get error message " Initial data download failed. Reason:'get_Families_version_list() failed!. "

i smell a 1.012 update.

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StevieJ wrote: I would like to be smelling an end to that @#$%&% resource leak.....

yes, dear. thank you, dear. i'll get right on it, dear.

it mostly means more headaches for the FF team

yeah, that one has been around for a long while, jffe; maybe even since the beginning, but i find it annoying also.

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jffe wrote: I've got a *bug* that's really minor, but it's bugging the piss out of me. Whenever I change screens (ie = leave the FF window and go to a folder or an internet page etc.), when I come back to FF, the My Filters list is at the top in alphabetical order

Interesting. We'll look into it.

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crispalomino wrote: Has any solution been found to this? I still get"Initial data download failed."

Unfortunately, no solution has yet been found to this. We cannot catch this error -- on our machines Filter Forge works correctly under Parallels.