NetRemote 2

[jwilson56]

Ok here are a couple things I have found....

One is a minor change....

On my Album lister panel I have a Jump Back button at the top right. It used to work fine but now if I select a new album to play it doesn't want to go back... so I changed it to a Jump to panel instead.

Second one is that on my main screen the CPU usage is way up... lows are 30% and highs 50% and I have a AMD 4000+. Never seen these high usages before. This is a NR client on a separate PC. It only seems to do it on my main screen. Something definitely changed.

John

[Rob H]

The CPU usage may be related to the fact that NRD no longer precomputes alpha transparency (connected with the image degradation problem). Although I wouldn't expect that to be a continuous factor in CPU usage.

[jwilson56]

Well I tried the Flat CCF on the main player screen and it sits very low usage. I have lots of popup frames and multi layered. In fact sometimes the two small album covers on each side of the larger on blink off randomly. I would hate to do something less than what I had.

John

[jwilson56]

Ok... did some playing around... seems if I delete the Master Template background the CPU usage drops to 9-11% (blue background)

John

[Rob H]

That blinking sounds a bit odd - sounds like some images are continuously updated. Combine that with the alpha change and it would explain the CPU usage.

[jwilson56]

Well I never had this problem with any other versions so I suspect its the changes made for alpha or the redrawing. I hope it can be fixed.

John

[tmorten]

Ok... did some playing around... seems if I delete the Master Template background the CPU usage drops to 9-11% (blue background)

John

Let me know if you're able to put together a small sample CCF that reproduces the CPU issue; I'd be happy to take a look at it on this end.

Best,
Tim

[tmorten]

Example attached.
On the test page, the bar charts on the top and side behave as they should. The problem appears to be when the bar charts are in loop frames. While the Red line works as it should, the other two bars do not. The sliders to adjust them are on the left.

Probably related- Marcel Dial charts in a loop frame don't display properly either.

I've tried the sample CCF, and it seems to behave the same on .98 as on .101... I suspect something may be different about my setup (I'm running on Vista for instance), but can you post an image of the correct appearance? I'm going to try to track the changes in the code since .98, but I want to make sure it was indeed working as you expected in that version before I do.

Thanks,
Tim

[dsmes]

I've tried the sample CCF, and it seems to behave the same on .98 as on .101... I suspect something may be different about my setup (I'm running on Vista for instance), but can you post an image of the correct appearance? I'm going to try to track the changes in the code since .98, but I want to make sure it was indeed working as you expected in that version before I do.

Thanks,
Tim

Tim, I screwed up the example ccf in my original post... try the attached. Also see screen shots of v2.0.0.97 (I can't find v..98) and v2.0.0.101. Like I said, the Red line works in Loop Frame #1 but not the light and dark Blue bars. I'm running XP-Pro sp2.

I trust you saw my other example here which I think is nothing more than a Z-order rendering thing.

Thank you for your help looking into these!

[tmorten]

The clipping will be fixed in the next release (this week).

I've traced the bar chart problem to a change that was made on May 20th, but a lot of code was introduced at that point, so it will take me a little bit to sort through it and figure out a solution.

Thanks for posting the example! Incidentally, it turns out that it works in .97 but not in .98.

Best,
Tim