Weird draw issues

[stigzler]

Think I'll save others' time and holler @Tom Speirs directly, although if anyone's got any ideas - let me know. Think this issue is GE hardcoding somewhere...

So found a weird issue tonight whilst dev'ing my CustomLists plugin. It uses "Export to MCE" to refresh the favourites list after DATA>data.db3 has been manipulated by the plugin. This used to work fine. However, tonight, this was happening:

Attached the corresponding log for this run. 

It's like it does the operation, but then you're left looking at the "Loading" dialog box. If you stick with it - I use the gamepad - it clicks like you're navigating and I think it is navigating correctly behind the 'stuck' screen (just from hearing some background music etc....

To isolate, I disabled all plugins + disabled CustomMenus. Essentially running 'bare.' Also found that Search not working, and this shows to problems a little better:

Any ideas?

log.txt

GameEx.ini

[Tom Speirs]

Ill take a look. There were some changes to how the please wait dialog worked.

[stigzler]

Cheers fella. Wondered whether it was centred around that.

[Tom Speirs]

You know, I believe I fixed this issue but might have updated the current version. Please just try and install again.

[stigzler]

Bizarrely, Tom, I've never 'reinstalled over the top' - I'm guessing you just download the installer and run - installing to the same location? Will I loose any files - I'm guessing only the GE files get overwritten. Weirdly - got 15Gb in my GE folder - taking a while to back up! No idea where the 15G is coming from!

 

[Tom Speirs]

Well the auto download does exactly the same thing but with no prompts. Although that should be the correct version. I will make sure. I don't get those issues here though once I fixed the issue.

[Tom Speirs]

What date is gameex.exe?

[stigzler]

7.12.16 - 15.20

Don't get any prompt to download newest version. Did get newest yesterday, I think.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah, that's the latest. Obviously a bug.

Please try this exe replacement.

Thanks.

Tom.

 

GameEx.zip

[Tom Speirs]

It seems like a quite a serious bug to me. So I am getting another release out. Hopefully I fixed it.

[Tom Speirs]

Actually I think its unrelated to the please wait animation.

I think you are getting an exception when searching and the rest of the stuff and that is causing the issue.

Could you try to narrow it down to a system? Try that exe anyway.

[stigzler]

Nope. Still the same. Tried with the auto-update version, then with the individual exe file. 

I tried searching a game which is only on one system. Still same issue. Log attached.

log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

I think the display glitch is a side effect of a different issue.

Please try this exe and post the log.

Thanks.

Tom.

GameEx.zip

[stigzler]

OK. So tested both with and without custom menus. 

On both: Search no longer does the glitchy thing - refreshes as usual. However, it's not returning any search results where it should (e.g. "Tekken" with lots of Tekken games in the library). 

On custom: The "Export to MCE" option (leveraged via plugin) still causes same bug. (the log reflects this run).

Getting closer + thanks for looking at this, Tom. 

log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Please do me a favour and turn off the artwork downloader. See if that works.

[stigzler]

Out of time this am. Pesky work. Yerp - fixed that the search bug, but some wierd behaviours with using MCE export in plugin. However, latter may be the plugin, although worked before. Will look at this pm.

[stigzler]

@Tom Speirs - OK - did some testing. All's good generally and with my plugin when you disable artwork downloader. Re-appears if re-instated. Thanks for isolating the problem. Let me know if you need anything else to help with tackling the downloader issue. 

[Tom Speirs]

Should be fixed in the current release. I did a silent update.