Friture doesn't start

[Robin-Z6]

On the commit #364 Friture now no longer starts. When it gets to the line splash.finish(window), the program hangs.

Disabling the splash-screen bypasses the problem as the line is not called. Also, the program sometimes doesn't hang when using a debugger to slowly step through the code line by line (you might need an extra app.processEvents() after window.show() to replicate this), but always hangs when it's allowed to run at full speed.

Link to line:

friture/friture/analyzer.py

Line 495 in 69415a6

splash.finish(window)

System information: Arch Linux, KDE Plasma Wayland, Python 3.11.1 (virtual environment)

[tlecomte]

Thanks for the report @Robin-K-Lynn ! I was about to release 0.52, so it's a good timing 👍

By any chance, do you have the possibility to try replacing splash.finish(window) with splash.hide() and see if it works better ?

[Robin-Z6]

It seems to work fine using splash.hide(), both when in debug mode with break points and without when running from my IDE.

Though when I run Friture directly through the console (in theory, the same command, just without a debugger attached) the pop-up window doesn't seem to show. This may be just be that it's being closed too fast, as Friture loads immediately. EDIT: Just retested, I'm pretty sure it's just a speed thing as the pop-up window shows when more programs are running on my computer

[tlecomte]

Thanks! I've merged the change to hide splash.hide instead of splash.finish. It's acceptable to me that the splash screen does not show up, as long as Friture itself opens quickly. Thanks again for the report!

[bmeshell]

Hi friends! I experienced the same issue on my Windows 10 x64 machine. I tried installing Friture version 0.51 using the Windows installer friture-0.51.msi It hung at the splash screen and I was unable to use the program. I uninstalled and reinstalled from the Microsoft store with the same result.

I got it to run by cloning the repo, commenting out the logic to check your platform, and just calling splash.hide() for all platforms. (Code snippet below.)

    # Splash screen
    if not program_arguments.no_splash:
        pixmap = QPixmap(":/images/splash.png")
        splash = QSplashScreen(pixmap)
        splash.show()
        splash.showMessage("Initializing the audio subsystem")
        app.processEvents()

    window = Friture()
    window.show()
    if not program_arguments.no_splash:
        splash.hide()
        #if platform.system() == "Linux":
        #    splash.hide()
        #else:
        #    splash.finish(window)

@Robin-K-Lynn Thank you for reporting this. I wouldn't have been able to run Friture otherwise.

@tlecomte Are other Windows users experiencing this? If so, is it possible to get a fix into version 0.52? Like I said, this problem completely prevented me from using Friture. Thank you!

[tlecomte]

Thanks @bmeshell, I agree that it's safer to move to splash.hide everywhere. I've made that change in #374 and I'll release 0.53 to Windows Store.