((LXStudio-IDE)) no UI visible at runtime - on mac OS Ventura

[nargetdev]

This just started happening today. No UI visible at runtime. Wonder if any others have seen this behavior?

May just be an intellij configuration thing...

My output at runtime:

[LX 2022/10/31 21:45:35] Initializing LXStudio version 0.4.1 with LX version 0.4.1
[LX 2022/10/31 21:45:36] Project loaded successfully from /Users/mswhiskers/007/ethfs/01__SRC/LX/LXStudio-IDE/Projects/Example.lxp
[LX 2022/10/31 21:45:37] LXEngine.ExecutorService starting...

[mcslee]

Hrm, would need to maybe see more about the full Java config and how you're starting this up.

Again, maybe reference the runtime configuration readme:
https://github.com/heronarts/LXStudio-IDE#configure-your-runtime

Do you have the appropriate symlink set up and argument passed to the Java invocation to link the appropriate native libs for Processing? Specifically this flag -Djava.library.path=lib/processing-4.0b8/native (assuming native is a symlink pointing to the right version for your architecture/JVM).

[nargetdev]

Yea I do.

I think it might be on processing this time.. I'm getting the same behavior via LXStudio-P4 through the processing applet. No error whatsoever in either case, just no visible window.

[parabolala]

I'm experienceing the same issue. It started after I've upgraded to macOS Ventura. The window is invisible.

However when I open Mission Control, the window does show up in the tiny desktop preview on top:

[mcslee]

Hrm, bummer. Wouldn't be the first time there have been Mac/Processing compatibility issues. Processing 3 ended up unfortunately not working at all on modern macs...

@parabolala - are you able to also test the Processing IDE based version of LXStudio at https://github.com/heronarts/LXStudio-P4

Let me know if anything appears in the window when you run that way?

@nargetdev - are you also on macOS Ventura?

Weird that the preview does displays... definitely seems like some kind of graphics layer issue. Processing is still OpenGL-based which tends to cause problems since Apple has announced it's not going to be officially supported forever.

For context here - I am working on moving LX completely over to a new graphics layer which I hope to have available reasonably soon, I feel the project has reached the limits of using Processing as a full application graphics layer. Hopefully we can find a temporary solution for this.

[parabolala]

I get the same result for Processing-based LXStudio-P4

[nargetdev]

I'm experienceing the same issue. It started after I've upgraded to macOS Ventura. The window is invisible.

Ahh nice catch @parabolala I also just upgraded to Ventura

[nargetdev]

For this reason I'd be interested in some docker builds with VNC frontend like noVNC

docker run -d -p 5901:5901 -p 6901:6901 consol/centos-xfce-vnc

==[then_visit]==> http://localhost:6901

Useful if your host is elsewhere on the network, or even in the cloud.

[mcslee]

Confirming that this is a known issue with Processing/Ventura.
benfry/processing4#544

Looks like there's a possible quick hack-fix for it. I don't have Ventura, so I can't test, but this doesn't seem to break anything on Monterey.

LXStudio-IDE - on the ventura branch:
heronarts/LXStudio-IDE@719ac89

LXStudio-P4 - on the ventura branch
heronarts/LXStudio-P4@85302e5

Try replicating that GLProfile initialization call in your projects. Maybe this gets things running for now? Hopefully a future Ventura-compatible release of Processing will render this unnecessary in the long-term.

[mcslee]

Also confirming it looks like this has been resolved and will be available whenever Processing 4.0.2 gets released:
benfry/processing4@9e3522a

So the hack shouldn't be needed for long. Closing this issue out, but please feel free to chime in with further comments or test reports if you give this a whirl.

[parabolala]

Can confirm the branch ventura of LXStudio-IDE (719ac89) fixes the issue. Thanks

[nargetdev]

Same. Well played @mcslee

Also P.S. just downloaded Eclipse and had a much better experience (build on first try w/out modification)

[oveddan]

Confirming that this is a known issue with Processing/Ventura. processing/processing4#544

Looks like there's a possible quick hack-fix for it. I don't have Ventura, so I can't test, but this doesn't seem to break anything on Monterey.

LXStudio-IDE - on the ventura branch: heronarts/LXStudio-IDE@719ac89

LXStudio-P4 - on the ventura branch heronarts/LXStudio-P4@85302e5

Try replicating that GLProfile initialization call in your projects. Maybe this gets things running for now? Hopefully a future Ventura-compatible release of Processing will render this unnecessary in the long-term.

I had the same issue on Ventura and this solved it, thanks for the fix

[mcslee]

Re-titling and re-opening this for the sake of visibility/discoverability on the issues page, since it still seems to impact some people's Ventura installs.

[philihp]

Thanks for that. I also encountered this on Ventura, and the above branch patch resolved the issue.

[schott12521]

Is there a fix for getting LXStudio-IDE to run on macOS Sonoma? I seem to be getting the same error where the program is running, but there is not a visible window rendered. Processing is setup and working separately.

Edit: I got it to work by updating the Processing lib and adding this same "hack" - heronarts/LXStudio-IDE#3

I can see the UI now at least :)!