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New Menu and themes
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:21 pm
by boombaxx
Really like the new menu and theme gives buzz a very more modern look

Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:47 pm
by IXix
The dark theme is nice but it seems to kill my CPU for some reason. Running one track just now with the dark theme, Buzz used ~70% CPU. Running the same track with the default theme uses just ~20%.
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:55 pm
by oskari
Are you sure about that? It has almost no animations and it doesn't use any CPU here.
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:44 pm
by strobotone
IXix: check debug console. any infos?
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:44 am
by boombaxx
No problems here
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:32 am
by IXix
oskari wrote:Are you sure about that? It has almost no animations and it doesn't use any CPU here.
Yes. I just made a new song with nothing but one Noise XP and Process Explorer shows Buzz using 50% CPU as soon as I hit play. The interface becomes sluggish and the meters look like they're running at 2fps. Buzz itself says it's using around 1.0.%. If I switch back to the default theme, everything is fine.
Win7 32bit, Intel Core2 Duo, 3GB Ram. I'll play around with display/engine settings to see if it makes any difference.
strobotone wrote:IXix: check debug console. any infos?
No, nothing. Just the normal startup stuff.
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:25 am
by IXix
Changing various settings had no effect

. The debug console does show the following but it does so for loading both the extended and default themes...
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01:06 [WPFTraceListener] Cannot find governing FrameworkElement or FrameworkContentElement for target element. BindingExpression:Path=Buzz.ThemeColors[MV Background]; DataItem=null; target element is 'SolidColorBrush' (HashCode=22640972); target property is 'Color' (type 'Color')
01:06 [WPFTraceListener] Cannot find governing FrameworkElement or FrameworkContentElement for target element. BindingExpression:Path=MachineGraph.Buzz.ThemeColors[MV Line]; DataItem=null; target element is 'SolidColorBrush' (HashCode=57122151); target property is 'Color' (type 'Color')
01:06 [WPFTraceListener] Cannot find governing FrameworkElement or FrameworkContentElement for target element. BindingExpression:Path=MachineLEDOnColor; DataItem=null; target element is 'SolidColorBrush' (HashCode=61612656); target property is 'Color' (type 'Color')
Could it be video drivers?
edit: Windows thinks the video drivers are up to date. I'll see if Intel say any different though.
edit again: Nope, all drivers all up to date.
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:09 pm
by strobotone
same here.
and i have another issue with my theming :
[WPFTraceListener] Cannot find source for binding with reference 'RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType='System.Windows.Controls.ItemsControl', AncestorLevel='1''. BindingExpression:Path=VerticalContentAlignment; DataItem=null; target element is 'ListBoxItem' (Name=''); target property is 'VerticalContentAlignment' (type 'VerticalAlignment')
i am unable to find the reason xaml-wise yet. it only comes up if i add a Generator (not Effect).
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:51 pm
by boombaxx
Got an error message on shutting down WPF. Still worked and saved

Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:57 pm
by IXix
This is really strange. New song, no machines, any output device (even silent), press play, CPU = ~50% with the extended theme but just ~2% with the default.
What's going on

Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:32 pm
by strobotone
which os and .net version are you running?
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:33 pm
by Klangkulisse
IXix wrote:This is really strange. New song, no machines, any output device (even silent), press play, CPU = ~50% with the extended theme but just ~2% with the default.
What's going on

Same here
OS: XP SP3
.NET-Version: Taken from oskaris link plus all latest updates (these includes windows .NET-Versions 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. They get installed too, could this cause it?)
Computer: Athlon single core
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:27 pm
by IXix
strobotone wrote:which os and .net version are you running?
Win7 32bit, .NET 4 I think (required for Buzz to work IIRC).
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:43 pm
by Buzztler
Win XP x86 single core
Old Buzz:
grey theme just the master loaded 0% CPU usage in Buzz and 0% in system
New Buzz:
default theme: just the master loaded minimum 8% up to 17% CPU usage in system, showing 0% in the internal buzz CPU-meter

playing a simple track 10% in old Buzz 70% system load with the new Buzz ...
Thanks for mentioning this, I didn't realize the high CPU consumption at first ...
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:24 pm
by oskari
0% on a modern computer.
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:25 pm
by IXix
oskari wrote:0% on a modern computer.
Mine is moderately modern (though not very powerful I'll admit). The .NET version appears to be v4.0.30319.
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:56 am
by strobotone
no noticeable performance impacts due to the theme.
win7x64, corei7, .net4
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:04 pm
by IXix
Build 1457 has fixed my CPU problem!

(I still miss those smileys)
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:31 pm
by strobotone
mine is also gone. thanks !
Re: New Menu and themes
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:45 am
by Klangkulisse
The dark theme is really cool, but still suffering a 50 % cpu consumption by just loading buzz and doing nothing.
When using default theme 0 %
Build 1458
XP SP3
32-bit
.NET 4
Athlon single core (about 7 years old)