Zenity fileselector freezes my panel

[m.tarenskeen]

Hi,

Ctrlr freezes as soon as my panels try calling a fileselector (using utils.openFileWindow() in my Lua code).

I am on Linux Fedora 23, and yes, as recommended, I have disabled the option “Use OS native file open/save dialogs” in the Ctrlr settings. I can open a filedialog to load/save a panel. (Without disabling that option even that freezes my system).

My system freezes if the filedialog is called from within my Panel using Lua code.
For example my Korg-DS8 panel (available from the Download section) suffers from this, while it used to work without such problems in the past. I can un-freeze my system if I kill the running “zenity” process manually from a terminal. But my the nice Load and Save buttons in my panels are useless until there is a solution. Help!

I am using Fedora 23 and Ctrlr-5.3.201

[m.tarenskeen]

I just tried the same panels in a Windows machine: no problem.
The problem is on Linux only.

[atom]

This is a linux issue not Ctrlr, there is a special option in ctrlr to use JUCE own file selector dialogs, use that to go around the problem

[m.tarenskeen]

atom wrote:

This is a linux issue not Ctrlr, there is a special option in ctrlr to use JUCE own file selector dialogs, use that to go around the problem

If you read again my first message: I know that, and I tried that: in Edit->Preferences (Ctrlr/Settings) I already disabled “Use OS native file open/save dialogs (disable for Linux). If I load or save a panel I see indeed a fileselector that differs from my Gnome/GTK+ fileselector.

But if I try to open a fileselector from within LUA code for a panel – my panel can save/load a patchdump to/from a *.syx file – Ctrlr freezes. If I now, while Ctrlr is in frozen condition – open a terminal and try the “ps x” command I can see that Ctrlr has tried to use zenity to open a native fileselector:

12461 pts/0 Sl+ 0:00 ctrlr
12477 pts/0 Sl+ 0:00 zenity –file-selection –title=Load Patch 2>/dev/null

Is there a separate option to force the use of JUCE dialogs instead of native (zenity) dialogs also for inside panels? I could not find it?

[atom]

there is a parameter to the lua called useOSNativeDialogBox it’s a boolean parameter, set it false and a JUCE based file selector should appeat, does this work ?

[m.tarenskeen]

Thank you!!!

Now it works, even on my Linux box! It was set to “true”, and I changed it to “false” in my Lua code.

Thinking about it … I will also try what happens if I don’t set that parameter. Maybe in that case it will default to the choice from the Ctrlr settings dialog?

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