Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

Anonymous (144.124.244.x) 02 Nov 2007 14:06

On startup, Gimp complains if my CD/DVD drive is empty ( d: ).
This happens with version 0.2.1 and 0.3.0.
I have tried complete fresh installs of Gimp and with only this plugin installed.
Tried using the plugin anyway and it seems to run but I never see a difference in the final image.
Using a 2816x2112 jpg image, transfered straight from my camera ( Sony S600 ).

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

CarloB 02 Nov 2007 15:23

The CD drive????? This is crazy! I swear there's nothing about the CD in the code!!! :D
Possibly, there's a memory access to some random area. Very weird indeed anyway.

It is also very strange that the image doesn't change. You mean not even the size?
(you did change the size, didn't you? Ok, sorry for asking.)
Does the "output seams" option work?

Tip: to make tests, you could first scale down the image.

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

Anonymous (144.124.244.x) 03 Nov 2007 15:33

I found it does seem to complete now but only if i make the image smaller first using a normal resize. I will do some more test to see if there is a rough image size above which it stops working.

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

Anonymous (216.27.162.x) 16 Nov 2007 16:38

I'm also seeing no-disk access violations on Vista Home Premium, and the failure to resize images with Gimp 2.4.1. Strange indeed.

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

CarloB 16 Nov 2007 17:23

I'm sorry, I have no clue at all. There's really nothing strange in my code.
I will ask the guy who compiled it for Windows if he can help, maybe just by compiling the latest code release.

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

LKRaider 16 Nov 2007 18:01

Hi, I'm the responsible for compiling the windows versions.

About the "d:" drive access: my compilation environment (mingw) is
located on my "d:" drive… maybe the compilation hardwires some weird
library lookup paths because of this? :S

About the bugs on Vista: I don't know about it, since I don't use it
(never will :P). I recommend a downgrade heh ;P

Failures on resize: I noticed the plugin doesn't likes images that are
too big. I'm guessing it's a memory issue?

I'll take a look on the drive access thing, and see if it can be fixed
by recompiling differently somehow.

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

LKRaider 16 Nov 2007 18:59

I'm sending a new version that I believe fixes the drive access issue.

The other issues I don't believe are related to this or the compilation in general, so I don't think I can help much on those. :/

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

Anonymous (62.16.132.x) 20 Mar 2008 19:00

Installed latest Gimp 2.4.5 i 686 on my XP Sp2 today and get the following error:

Windows - No disk in tray
Exeption Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b4bf9c 75b4bf9c
Cancel Try again Continue

Gimp starts when choosing:"Continue" though ;-)
Will try to fiddle around whit the plugin until I understand how it works.

yngve

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

CarloB 20 Mar 2008 19:29

Did it work with previous GIMP versions?

There have been people reporting a similar issue here.

You could try this:

Find these two lines in the "c:\documents and settings\username\.gimp-2.4\pluginrc" file:

(locale-def "gimp20-lqr-plugin" "f:/gimp-lqr-plugin-0.4.0/lib/locale")
(help-def "plug-in-lqr-help" "file:///f:/gimp-lqr-plugin-0.4.0/share/gimp-lqr-plugin/help"))

Then, change the drilve letter f: with c: (or whichever drive Gimp is installed in your system).

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

Mjr162006 14 Aug 2008 01:47

With that fix the error messages stopped showing on the startup of GIMP. But they still show up when running the plug-in. The error message saying that there is no disk in the drive shows up twice, meaning that you have to click cancel twice in a row. Also, when the plug-in is running, a blank command prompt window shows up, unlike any other plug-ins I have installed.

The help files cannot be found either, but they were installed exactly as instructed. This could be related to the problem at hand.

Re: Problems with Gimp 2.4.1 for windows and the Liquid Rescale plugin

CarloB 01 Sep 2008 18:08

There's a new Windows release in the Download page. This time it was compiled from drive C:, so it will hopefully solve the drive problems.