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  • UserNameGoesHere
    FFR Veteran
    • May 2008
    • 1114

    #1

    Freezing issue on Token genre

    Firstly, I apologize if this has been discussed before. I looked but didn't see anything on it. (Then again I do see a lot of vaguely-named threads)

    (I try to make my thread titles self-explanatory and clear.)

    If, while cycling through the genres, I click on the Token genre (looks like an upside-down L symbol) I see a bunch of unavailable slots and then FFR freezes.

    This happens 100% of the time so would qualify as an easily-reproducible bug.

    A box pops up which says "A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 9 to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script? Yes/No". BTW, if I choose the option to kill it, I then am quickly able to close Internet Explorer. If I choose the other option, Internet Explorer crashes and it takes some time to pull up Task Manager to kill it.

    I am surprised this issue wasn't placed in the common issues sticky thread as I would assume it happens quite frequently to people.

    My guess is there is a serious memory leak somewhere near there and it eats up RAM fast. It could either be a bug in the FlashFlashRevolution program or some bug in the Flash plugin itself. My guess is it is in FFR though.

    System specs should be pretty "standard" with Flash Player 9, Internet Explorer 7, Windows XP SP2, 512MB RAM. There's no reason it should be freezing up like that. I realize the RAM could be larger but there's no reason it shouldn't be working with 512MB RAM.

    I see in my profile that I have some tokens, so I thought I'd try going to Token genre and freeze freeze freeze. I realize the songs it lists are ones available in Skill genre, but then what is Token genre ?

    Regardless, it shouldn't be freezing like that, even if I don't have anything available to play in it.

    Someone please tell me this is happening to other people and well-known.

    Again, I'm sorry if this has been discussed already multiple times but I didn't find any such discussion.
    Originally posted by Crashfan3
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  • DarkbearX
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    FFR Simfile Author
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    • Feb 2006
    • 1995

    #2
    Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

    Originally posted by UserNameGoesHere
    A box pops up which says "A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 9 to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script? Yes/No"
    This is because something is taking up too much of your CPU I believe. This happens to me often when I'm in prochat and am rendering something in FL (which is really CPU intensive).

    So chances are, there's something other than FFR taking up lots of CPU in the background causing that error to pop up. I know that this is definitely Flash's / your computer's flaw though, not FFR's. ;)
    Last edited by DarkbearX; 05-21-2008, 02:04 AM.
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    • Tasselfoot
      Retired BOSS
      FFR Simfile Author
      • Jul 2003
      • 25185

      #3
      Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

      Well... this is likely caused by some sort of error in the fact that you're trying to access the Token genre and you have no tokens.

      Technically, this shouldn't be happening even if you have no tokens. So, we'll take a look at this in the morning.


      To answer your question: Skill Tokens are earned via FFR The Game (R1).... they are earned through skill at FFR. Tokens (which came before Skill Tokens) are riddles/puzzles that are scattered throughout the entire site. Finding one and clicking on it will reward you with a song in the Token genre. You can find all of the clues for the Tokens here: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...token_info.php
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      • UserNameGoesHere
        FFR Veteran
        • May 2008
        • 1114

        #4
        Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

        You're absolutely right as to why the bug is triggering. I just found one of those tokens and now it doesn't do that anymore but instead displays my one token song which I can play with no problems.
        Originally posted by Crashfan3
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        • Tasselfoot
          Retired BOSS
          FFR Simfile Author
          • Jul 2003
          • 25185

          #5
          Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

          Yea... but that doesn't change the fact that it SHOULDN'T happen in the first place.
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          • Xx{Midday}xX
            FFR Player
            • Sep 2007
            • 3518

            #6
            Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

            I tried it on TC_Midday. This definitely occurs, regardless of what you have running on the computer at the moment. It's a problem originating in FFR. =(

            This may be coincidence, but FFR (the site in general) seemed to load much slower after it froze once. After a good hour or so, the site was back to my new and improved speed again.

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            • UserNameGoesHere
              FFR Veteran
              • May 2008
              • 1114

              #7
              Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

              Originally posted by Tasselfoot
              Yea... but that doesn't change the fact that it SHOULDN'T happen in the first place.
              True, but it does mean you should have a very easily findable bug somewhere in the FFR code and an easily findable bug is usually an easily fixable one.

              Why should it be easily findable in the code? It's because it is 100% reproducible and you even know under what circumstances it happens (a user accesses a genre for which that user has no available songs).

              Hence you know to start looking in a few places, such as the code that populates the songlist, for example.

              A "quick fix" would be to simply give everybody a default dummy song in each genre. Perhaps make it have just a single arrow or something and call it "dummy". That certainly would fix it but it would be an extremely cludgy fix.
              Last edited by UserNameGoesHere; 05-21-2008, 05:17 PM.
              Originally posted by Crashfan3
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              • Tasselfoot
                Retired BOSS
                FFR Simfile Author
                • Jul 2003
                • 25185

                #8
                Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

                does this also happen when you have 0 skill tokens and go to Skill? or just Token?
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                • JasonKey
                  FFR Underseer
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 2643

                  #9
                  Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

                  hmm .. and is this the first time its been reported?

                  Just to be safe, can you also clear cache and try that again?

                  *edit* Actually I can repro now. Seeing what we can do.
                  Last edited by JasonKey; 05-21-2008, 05:43 PM.

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                  • DayMan951
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                    • Dec 2007
                    • 2255

                    #10
                    Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

                    I tried it out on an old account and it does it when you go to skill token too. I also cleared my cache and tried again and I still got an error.

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                    • qqwref
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                      FFR Simfile Author
                      • Aug 2005
                      • 4092

                      #11
                      Re: Freezing issue on Token genre

                      Yeah, this happened to me before a few times. It seems like if you have ANY genre with no songs (skill, token, secret...) then the page numbers keep generating and displaying forever. Normally they go 1 through 9 but I let the script run once and I could see the numbers just going down until they were displayed past the bottom of the screen (I could only see up to about 16 but I'm sure there were a few hundred plus). So it seems that the code for displaying page numbers falls into an infinite loop when a genre has no songs at all.
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