[Cuis-dev] VectorGrahicsPlugin Troubles (WAS: Re: A few tweaks to preferences)

[Juan Vuletich]

On 8/21/2021 3:10 PM, David T. Lewis via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 02:54:52PM -0300, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Thanks Gerald!
>>
>> Luckily, in this case, the crash.dmp pointed straight to a clear bug in
>> the code. In most other cases, any primitive that modifies an array also
>> gets the array as argument (even if passed before). This is in case the
>> GC moves it around. But when I added contour, somehow I forgot about
>> this. #primResetContourTop:bottom: doesn't pass the contour array as
>> argument, and therefore could produce an invalid access after GC.
>>
>> This will require changes to the plugin and new VMs.
>>
> I'll be watching for updates :-)

Hi Dave,

I pushed an update to the plugin yesterday, and this is a good time to 
rebuild VMs.

Thanks!!!

Cheers,

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> One suggestion - consider adding some kind of #primitivePluginVersion
> to VectorEnginePlugin, possibly just answering an integer. If the
> VectorGraphics version requires a compatible plugin version, you
> can test for it in advance from the image.
>
> Dave
>