2021.4 and 2022.5 nodes turning red

[tobyk]

Bug

Lots of nodes turn yellow and red when I add an empty document as a dependency.
There does not seem to actually be an error.

On 2022.5.0.-310

igbm_dev REFTEST.zip (564.5 KB)

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To reproduce

• Download and extract ‘ibgm_dev REFTEST.zip’

• Open Patches/IGBM.vl in vvvv 2022.5.0-310

• Go to definitions, all the nodes should be grey (no error)

• Create a new blank VL document

• Back in IGBM.VL go to dependencies > Files > Add existing… and add the new blank document

• Some nodes turn red and yellow but upon internal inspection no actual errors.
  Adding an empty document as a dependency should not create any errors.

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Workaround

• Save and reopen, the nodes are now without error

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Notes

• I can reproduce the same bug in 2022.5.0-310 and 2022.4.11-1312
• I need to continue development on 2022.5 because I am using the new Channels feature
• This is one of those bugs that I feel only appears after your application reaches a certain level of complexity. So rather than try and reproduce from blank I thought I would send a minimum version of my application cut down enough to show the bug behaviour. These test patches are a lobotomised application that doesn’t do anything. I deleted logic and other dependencies to try and narrow down this bug and make a version I can test in 2022.4.11 as well.

[Elias]

Hm, just opened your patch and for me the .Generate category is red, going in there the TileGen_* classes are red, following that route there is indeed a red pin which stems from the somewhat incomplete interface definition iTileGenerator. So maybe let’s first try to get on the same page here - did you maybe delete too much when preparing the patch for the forum post?

[Elias]

Using Float32 on the incomplete interface definition, all patches turn grey and then it is like you describe, after adding a dependency one runs into those somewhat ghost errors. The same behavior can also be seen in the stable 2021.4.10 release.

In any case, we will investigate, thanks for the patch!

[tobyk]

Here’s an updated version that should “fix” seeing an interface error

igbm_dev REFTESTv2.zip (466.9 KB)

[gregsn]

thank you! this is fixed now.