weird number~ and get info crash

owen lloyd's icon

hi there,

this is an odd one. it first occured in a patch i was working on but i've got it down to the bare essentials.
i open max. i create a new empty patcher. i put a number~ object in it and get info on the number~ object. i change nothing. i close the get info window. max quits.
not sure what on earth to do. i need to change the poll rate of a number~ object but can't edit it.

help!

owen

powerbook g4 1.5 ghz
osx 10.4.8
max/msp 4.6.2

Léopold Frey's icon
owen lloyd's icon

thanks leo,
that's done the job for now :)

owen

owen lloyd's icon

a small development to this issue is that it seems to happen to all number inspectors, float, int and number~

don't know what to make of it.

owen

Stefan Tiedje's icon

owen lloyd wrote:
> thanks leo,
> that's done the job for now :)

It does not happen on my machine btw. with exactly the same specs (if
its a 12")

nonetheless, was audio switched on while the crash happened? You could
try with audio switched off. There have been bugs in the past, which
would crash while audio was on.

Stefan

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owen lloyd's icon

hi stefan,

there was not even a dac~ in the patch, just 1 number box, nothing else, in a new empty patch from start up. crashes every time i close the number inspector.

owen

erichonour's icon

FWIW, I am experiencing this crash this morning. I'm in the middle of prepping to go teach a class. We're going to run through Max Tutorial 11 among other things, so I was playing with the number box inspector. When I create a number box, if I open the number inspector, closing it causes Max to crash, whether I change anything in the inspector or not. Happens with int, float, and number~ and is reproducible. I have tried reinstalling MaxMSP & Jitter; that does not resolve the problem. This crash occurs as described by the previous poster, even in a new patcher window with nothing but the number box.

The issue does not appear in Max 4.5.7/Jitter 1.5 running on the same machine.

I'm running MaxMSP 4.6.2 & Jitter 1.6.2 on a 1.67GHz Mac G4 (OS=10.4.8).

Might be unrelated, but I'm also getting an error message on launch in the Max window that has not been resolved even after reinstalling Jitter:

Jitter 1.6.2 installed
MXJ System CLASSPATH:
/Library/Application Support/Cycling '74/java/lib/jitter.jar
/Library/Application Support/Cycling '74/java/lib/jode-1.1.2-pre-embedded.jar
/Library/Application Support/Cycling '74/java/lib/max.jar
MXJClassloader CLASSPATH:
/Library/Application Support/Cycling '74/java/classes/
? error: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: copyMatrixToArray
Jitter Java support installed

owen lloyd's icon

fixed it with a full delete of max/msp 4.5 and 4.6 and then a reinstall of 4.6.

this was done because of the adc~ fragload error, so i checked to see if the inspector was working ok. no crash :)

cheers

owen