Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Possible Poser 10/PP2014 Bugs - Post here so they are seen

basicwiz opened this issue on Jun 06, 2013 · 258 posts


Cage posted Tue, 04 February 2014 at 8:33 PM

Poser Python bug with Tkinter.  If a script with a Tk GUI encounters an error which prevents it from loading completely -- if the Tk GUI is initialized incompletely -- Poser will crash the next time any Tk script is run.  The errored-out Tk instances are still in memory somehow, as in past Poser versions, and will pop up when the good Tk script is ultimately run.  That was true in the past, but before you could close all the zombie Tk GUIs and still run the desired script.  Now any effort to close any of the Tk GUI instances will cause Poser to hang and then crash.

This is bad, but I don't expect it to be something SM will want to fix, since they seem to be abandoning Tkinter support.  I assume they now consider Tk a "swim at your own risk" sort of a thing.  :sad:

But there are a lot of old Tkinter PPy scripts floating around, so users should be aware and be careful.  Like, save your scene before running any suspect script, so you don't lose an hour of work like I did.  :cursing:  :blink:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.