Memory not being freed

[Justin Clift]

When you export your project many times to a SWF, Salasaga starts to consume a lot of RAM and finally the program crashes.

It seem a problem of freeing memory.

Reported by piponazo:

  http://www.salasaga.org/forum/index.php/topic,18.0.html

[Dilomo (ankere)]

I think I experience this one too. Installed salasaga from add/remove

[Justin Clift (justinclift)]

Doesn't seem to be happening any more, and could be related to the fix for bug # 249182.

Needs wider testing by end users to confirm whether this is still occurring or not.

[Dilomo (ankere)]

I'll test it when I get home. Keep up the good work!

[Justin Clift (justinclift)]

Cool! Would you be ok to test the latest development snapshot?

They're here:

  http://www.salasaga.org/downloads/alpha6_dev/

A lot of work has been done since Alpha 5, mainly to make things more user friendly. There's a bad bug in the project crop function, so avoid doing that for now, but memory usage should be ok. :)

Also, it allows multiple fonts with the latest snapshots too.

[Dilomo (ankere)]

I tried to build it but it returns error:

In file included from create_menu_bar.c:36:
../salasaga_types.h:277: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘GdkRegion’
../salasaga_types.h:284: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘guint’
../salasaga_types.h:300: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘guint’
../salasaga_types.h:324: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘GdkColor’
../salasaga_types.h:330: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘gint’
../salasaga_types.h:341: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘gint’
../salasaga_types.h:351: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘gint’
../salasaga_types.h:359: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘guint’
../salasaga_types.h:373: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘guint’
../salasaga_types.h:380: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘GdkPixbuf’
../salasaga_types.h:393: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘gboolean’
../salasaga_types.h:411: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘guint’
In file included from ../externs.h:30,
                 from create_menu_bar.c:37:
/usr/include/ft2build.h:56:38: error: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory
In file included from create_menu_bar.c:37:
../externs.h:31:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
In file included from create_menu_bar.c:37:
../externs.h:42: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../externs.h:43: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../externs.h:44: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘capture_height’
../externs.h:45: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘capture_width’
../externs.h:46: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘capture_x’
../externs.h:47: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘capture_y’
../externs.h:48: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘changes_made’
../externs.h:50: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../externs.h:51: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘debug_level’
../externs.h:52: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘end_behaviour’
../externs.h:53: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘end_point_status’
../externs.h:54: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘export_time_counter’
../externs.h:56: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../externs.h:57: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘film_strip_being_resized’
../externs.h:58: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../externs.h:59: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../externs.h:60: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../externs.h:61: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../externs.h:62: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘ft_font_face’
../externs.h:...

[Justin Clift (justinclift)]

Oh.

It looks like you're missing the Freetype development headers ("libfreetype6-dev");

And, at a guess you'll probably be missing the libnotify headers as well ("libnotify-dev");

Installing them should get things up and running:

  $ sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libnotify-dev

The instructions on the wiki are known to work if that helps?

  http://www.salasaga.org/wiki/index.php/HowToInstallOnUbuntu

Also, the very latest development snapshot, from less than an hour ago, has good enhancements with text that are worthwhile:

  http://www.salasaga.org/downloads/alpha6_dev/salasaga_20090603.tar.bz2

Please let me know if it works for you, and you consider the memory usage a lot better? (ie bug is confirmed as fixed)

[Dilomo (ankere)]

Well call me stupid but I can't compile it. Here's a shor message I get:

export_swf_inner.o:/home/toni/Плот/salasaga/ide/functions/export/swf/export_swf_inner.c:464: more undefined references to `SWFMovie_add_internal' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [salasaga] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/toni/Плот/salasaga/ide/functions'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toni/Плот/salasaga/ide'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/toni/Плот/salasaga'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[Dilomo (ankere)]

Things to note in f video:

- Translations are not updated or does not work
- Some errors on startup (maybe linked with the translations)
- Can't update object properties
- Can't export
- Hard to delete slides wit6h context menus

I know this is work in progress but problems should be noted and resolved in order not to be forgotten.