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The advanced drum machine for Linux, macOS, and Windows
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Selecting beats drag just draws beats? #1966

Closed bunglesss closed 2 weeks ago

bunglesss commented 2 months ago

Hydrogen version * : 1.2.3 Operating system + version : Fedora Audio driver + version : Jack or Alsa

Trying to select beats with the arrow instead of the pen from the toolbar, just draws notes. I used to be able to drag over them and copy and past patterns?

Fedora RPM

Installed Packages Name : hydrogen Version : 1.2.3 Release : 12.fc39 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 19 M Source : hydrogen-1.2.3-12.fc39.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ycollet:audinux

bunglesss commented 2 months ago

Oh, also the UI doesn't fully draw itself sometimes, I have to mouse over to unhide preferences, then go into that, then the whole UI redraws. Screenshot from 2024-04-20 15-52-35

cme commented 2 months ago

Oh boy, that's weird. Is this running on X11 or on Wayland, perhaps?

bunglesss commented 2 months ago

It will be Wayland I think Fedora defaulted to Wayland ages ago now. Weird indeed!

cme commented 2 months ago

It will be Wayland I think Fedora defaulted to Wayland ages ago now. Weird indeed!

Did you have a previous Hydrogen working on the same system previously? Any idea which it was? I don't think there's been anything that's changed in Hydrogen itself that would cause this sort of behaviour. Perhaps other things (Qt version, wayland/Xwayland configuration or versions) changed along with the upgrade if it was installed by RPM. I'll see if I can set up a Fedora VM to attempt to reproduce.

theGreatWhiteShark commented 2 months ago

Oh, also the UI doesn't fully draw itself sometimes, I have to mouse over to unhide preferences, then go into that, then the whole UI redraws. Screenshot from 2024-04-20 15-52-35

Yeah. That definitely feels like a problem of a dependency/your system and not Hydrogen itself. Somethings like a wayland/Qt5/window manager mismatch. Or maybe your system is configured to discard window content above a certain threshold of resource consumption in order to free some. The parts visible are those frequently redrawn by Hydrogen.

Source : hydrogen-1.2.3-12.fc39.src.rpm

I'm not a Fedora person. But the official repo still contains version 1.1.1 https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/hydrogen/hydrogen/. Did you maybe mix packages from different sources/repos?

Adding to Colin's suggestions you could also try the latest AppImage release. This ships and uses its own Qt5 library. Maybe this already changes things at your end.

Trying to select beats with the arrow instead of the pen from the toolbar, just draws notes. I used to be able to drag over them and copy and past patterns?

It draws multiple patterns? In case something is broken in Qt <-> Window manager communication on your system and mouse dragging can not be handled properly, it should only draw a single pattern.

Are you able to drag select notes in the Pattern Editor? Is drag and drop of e.g. the instruments in the Pattern Editor working?

As a workaround you can still select multiple patterns using Shift and arrow keys.

bunglesss commented 2 months ago

Yes I may need to roll back to the official Fedora package. The ycollet:audinux repo maintainer maybe needs to have a look. They have put loads of cool packages together for Fedora, so sure they'll have a look.

bunglesss commented 2 months ago

I wll try and explain better about dragging, so you layout your patterns at the bottom, then at the top you lay out the song from those patterns. I used to drag over, and copy and paste parts of the song, but dragging just draws more notes on this version.

theGreatWhiteShark commented 2 months ago

Yes I may need to roll back to the official Fedora package. The ycollet:audinux repo maintainer maybe needs to have a look. They have put loads of cool packages together for Fedora, so sure they'll have a look.

This repo definitely seems to be worth the effort. 1.1.1 was released quite a while ago.

I just took a quick look at their build log and did not notice anything suspicious. Their Qt is quite cutting edge with version 5.15.12 (see https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qt5.git/log/?h=5.15). I'm on 5.15.8 locally. But I don't think this is the problem in here.

By the way, could you start Hydrogen in a terminal using hydrogen -VDebug, try to reproduce the described behavior (both blank window parts and dragging), and attach the output in here?

I wll try and explain better about dragging, so you layout your patterns at the bottom, then at the top you lay out the song from those patterns. I used to drag over, and copy and paste parts of the song, but dragging just draws more notes on this version.

Just to be entirely sure: When the third button from the right in here http://hydrogen-music.org/documentation/manual/manual_en.html#chpt.song_editor.main_controls shows a cursor, you are not able to drag-select. Instead, it draws patterns (rectangles). And when clicking the button so it shows a pencil, it still draws patterns?

bunglesss commented 2 months ago

I tried this, no useful output on the command line. However, I was able to drag and copy and paste, I've no idea why that now suddenly works. I will keep playing about and see if it happens again and if there's a pattern.

theGreatWhiteShark commented 3 weeks ago

Hey @bunglesss ,

did the problem showed up again?

bunglesss commented 2 weeks ago

Hi, no it does seem to be okay now, not sure why though.