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Crash when initing a ugen to null
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:07 pm    Post subject: Crash when initing a ugen to null Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Hey guys, I'm new to learning ChucK (about a week or so of digging in) so I'm not sure if this is even a thing, but I'm assuming crashing the miniaudicle with one line consistently is a "bug".

Here's the 1 liner:

Code:
null => SinOsc foo;


Also crashes is you null-init a Chubgraph.

Code:
class Foo extends Chubgraph {}
null => Foo foo;


I discovered this because I wanted to have a class wrap a UGen but have that UGen created outside the class. I didn't want to instantiate 2 UGens when I only wanted one.

Code:
class Wrapper
{
    // null this guy...
    null => MyChubgraph foo;

   // set it from outside
   fun void SetObj(MyChubgraph inFoo)
   {
        inFoo @=> foo;
   }

}


I was led to believe that null-initing a UGen was cool cause I was doing it with other non-UGen type objects. For example, this doesn't crash:

Code:
class MyClass {
   <<< "inside pre-init " >>>;
}
null => MyClass foo;

if (foo == null) { <<< "It is null." >>>; }


Also, I'm not really sure if null-initing an object really saves me anything or if it really matters. For what it's worth, that pre-init print *doesn't* occur if you null-init an object, so I'm guessing it saves me something.

Since it was so easy and consistent to crash, I assumed it was a known issue, but google lead me to believe it wasn't. Or I have no idea how to google this crash.

EDIT: I'm running ChucK on Windows 8 with ChucK version 1.3.5.0 (chimera).
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

In what way does it crash - does the miniaudicle program shut down or do you just get an error text somewhere?

Anyway, you can use @ do declare stuff as references rather than instances. This ought to work:

Code:
null @=> SinOsc @ foo;

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Antimon wrote:
In what way does it crash - does the miniaudicle program shut down or do you just get an error text somewhere?

Anyway, you can use @ do declare stuff as references rather than instances. This ought to work:

Code:
null @=> SinOsc @ foo;


It crashes. Asks if I want to attach a debugger. No other text. It's a straight-up crash. Try it... should crash for you pretty easily. If it's not allowed or is invalid syntax it shouldn't compile or it should put the ugen in a bad state (and log error messages).

Anyway, didn't know about declaring things as ref like that! That will definitely work for me.

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I must confess I don't use the miniAudicle, I'm a command line guy. Smile I agree that stuff shouldn't crash. Anyway, hope the @ stuff works!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Antimon wrote:
I must confess I don't use the miniAudicle, I'm a command line guy. Smile I agree that stuff shouldn't crash. Anyway, hope the @ stuff works!


So, I'm new to ChucK and am super outgrowing miniAudicle -- since it doesn't do debugging anyway, I'm thinking it'd be way better to do this stuff using a more robust text editor (of course!). What's your typical workflow if you don't use miniAudicle? What editor do you use?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

minuskelvin wrote:
Antimon wrote:
I must confess I don't use the miniAudicle, I'm a command line guy. Smile I agree that stuff shouldn't crash. Anyway, hope the @ stuff works!


So, I'm new to ChucK and am super outgrowing miniAudicle -- since it doesn't do debugging anyway, I'm thinking it'd be way better to do this stuff using a more robust text editor (of course!). What's your typical workflow if you don't use miniAudicle? What editor do you use?


I've tried a couple of editors, but recently I found a ChucK mode for Sublime Text, which is a popular editor for coders. I keep a terminal next to it for running chuck - very probably there's a way to run it inside Sublime (or other editors where there are ChucK modes, like emacs), but as I said I like terminals. Smile

Sublime isn't the cheapest editor around though - I used a ChucK mode in jEdit for a while I think, that worked ok. Before I wanted syntax highlighting I just went with any editor really - I still tend to use vi for doing quick tests, when I don't feel like waiting for a bigger text editor to start up.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Excellent -- I use Sublime Text all the time. I should have checked if there was a ChucK syntax highlighting mode.
I'll miss the audicle niceties i guess, but you can't beat being able to find and replace. Smile

Thanks for the advice.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Perfect - you've got the best alternative just around the corner then! thumleft
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