Advanced Scene Switcher 1.37.2

[matthewharper]

Unfortunately the minimum required OBS version for this plugin to work is OBS 30. (At least for MacOS)
You can try to install older versions, but they might of course contain some bugs / issues, which were already fixed on more recent releases.

I think this one might be compatible with OBS 29 still:

Release Advanced scene switcher 1.24.0-beta1 · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher

Important notes: Please make sure to back up your settings! If you run into any issues, please either post in the OBS forums or create an issue on GitHub! Note for MacOS users: This version of the ...

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Thankyou... yes it installed... stop gap until I upgrade... thanks again

 

[AaronD]

I don't know if this has something to do with having a touch screen.

I doubt it.

On all of the computers that I've had, the touch part (if it had one) was simply another user input device. Nothing more. Like a mouse or trackpad. Logically separate from the screen even though it's physically on top of the screen. I've even written some touch apps that actually use mouse events. (touch = click, drag = click-and-drag, etc.) The app itself didn't actually know about touch at all, despite that being my intended way to use it.

And true to that form, it makes no difference across several of my rigs, whether it has a touch screen or not. If it does, it effectively emulates a mouse, nothing more.

I dropped off of Windows though, about a year ago, when Win10 refused to update on my still-capable machine. So if they changed something since then and made another mess of themselves, that's entirely possible. Never had a problem on Linux, whether that's Ubuntu Studio with the factory touchscreen on a laptop, or the same system on two different desktops without touch at all, or some Raspberry Pi's with or without USB touchscreens, or whatever.

 

[belatar]

hi! im running obs 30.1.2 64bit on windows. i had a running installation of ass (teehee) with version 1.24. i just used the windows 64bit installer to upgrade to 1.26. update went through without errors. but after opening obs afterwards, ass is just gone. the dock is gone and it doesnt show under tools.
i checked in the plugins folder and the files are there, dating from just now. i tried starting obs as admin, same result.
help please?

 

[belatar]

hi! im running obs 30.1.2 64bit on windows. i had a running installation of ass (teehee) with version 1.24. i just used the windows 64bit installer to upgrade to 1.26. update went through without errors. but after opening obs afterwards, ass is just gone. the dock is gone and it doesnt show under tools.
i checked in the plugins folder and the files are there, dating from just now. i tried starting obs as admin, same result.
help please?

seems somethings wrong with the dll? here the log entry:
00:00:25.159: ---------------------------------
00:00:25.183: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/advanced-scene-switcher-lib.dll', not an OBS plugin
00:00:25.966: LoadLibrary failed for '../../obs-plugins/64bit/advanced-scene-switcher.dll': A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.
00:00:25.966: (1114)
00:00:25.966: Module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/advanced-scene-switcher.dll' not loaded

 

[belatar]

hi! im running obs 30.1.2 64bit on windows. i had a running installation of ass (teehee) with version 1.24. i just used the windows 64bit installer to upgrade to 1.26. update went through without errors. but after opening obs afterwards, ass is just gone. the dock is gone and it doesnt show under tools.
i checked in the plugins folder and the files are there, dating from just now. i tried starting obs as admin, same result.
help please?

seems somethings wrong with the dll? here the log entry:
00:00:25.159: ---------------------------------
00:00:25.183: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/advanced-scene-switcher-lib.dll', not an OBS plugin
00:00:25.966: LoadLibrary failed for '../../obs-plugins/64bit/advanced-scene-switcher.dll': A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.
00:00:25.966: (1114)
00:00:25.966: Module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/advanced-scene-switcher.dll' not loaded

im stumped. i tried uninstalling, cleaning up old folders under "data" manually, reinstalling -> plugin doesnt show and the above error message appears.
uninstalled everythign and tried manual install... same result.k

 

[belatar]

im stumped. i tried uninstalling, cleaning up old folders under "data" manually, reinstalling -> plugin doesnt show and the above error message appears.
uninstalled everythign and tried manual install... same result.k

alright, i opened an issue on github as it works with the previous version and seems to be a 1.26.0 specific bug:

1.26.0 64bit version of the plugin is not loaded by obs 30.1.2 on windows · Issue #1107 · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher

Describe the bug 1.26.0 64bit version of the plugin is not loaded by obs 30.1.2 on windows To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: install via 64bit installer exe or manually open obs observe...

github.com

 

[Warmuptill]

hi! im running obs 30.1.2 64bit on windows. i had a running installation of ass (teehee) with version 1.24. i just used the windows 64bit installer to upgrade to 1.26. update went through without errors. but after opening obs afterwards, ass is just gone. the dock is gone and it doesnt show under tools.
i checked in the plugins folder and the files are there, dating from just now. i tried starting obs as admin, same result.
help please?

I am not sure why it is suddenly necessary, but to resolve the problem you will have to install the most recent version of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable.

Sorry about that!

Just to mention it in case you need to restore your settings.
The plugin automatically backs up the settings of the last scene collection when the plugin was still active.

 

[belatar]

alright, i opened an issue on github as it works with the previous version and seems to be a 1.26.0 specific bug:

1.26.0 64bit version of the plugin is not loaded by obs 30.1.2 on windows · Issue #1107 · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher

Describe the bug 1.26.0 64bit version of the plugin is not loaded by obs 30.1.2 on windows To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: install via 64bit installer exe or manually open obs observe...

github.com

ok, the resolution is to install the latest version of the microsoft visual c++ redistributable (thanks to @Warmuptill for responding so quickly!). just google it and youll find the microsoft installer.

 

[Warmuptill]

Warmuptill updated Advanced Scene Switcher with a new update entry:

Advanced Scene Switcher 1.26.1

Important notes:​

Please make sure to back up your settings!
Windows only: It might be necessary to install the most recent version of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable.

If you run into any issues, please either post in the...

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Rozenman]

Hi all!
Question to the respected plugin developer.
There is a small problem: in my lecture schedule, the main condition is the date. It launches a cascade of actions (the background image, slideshow is loaded, the streamkey is loaded, the number of the study group, the name of the lecture, etc.). Everything works perfectly. But sometimes, when you start it for the first time on a given date, the OBS program crashes. This is not a problem - just re-run the program and it works fine. But psychologically it’s still uneasy. If you don't mind, then when this happens, I will send a report.
Thank you!

 

[Rozenman]

UPD: It is important to emphasize that the program crashes only when it is first (!) launched on a given date - then the program can be closed and restarted ad infinitum.

 

[Warmuptill]

Hi all!
Question to the respected plugin developer.
There is a small problem: in my lecture schedule, the main condition is the date. It launches a cascade of actions (the background image, slideshow is loaded, the streamkey is loaded, the number of the study group, the name of the lecture, etc.). Everything works perfectly. But sometimes, when you start it for the first time on a given date, the OBS program crashes. This is not a problem - just re-run the program and it works fine. But psychologically it’s still uneasy. If you don't mind, then when this happens, I will send a report.
Thank you!

Please do share a crash log - I don't mind it at all! :)

 

[Warmuptill]

Using the "Window>focus window" action does not trigger a change of windows (on Windows 11 at least).
For example, if trying to trigger to focus the OBS window, the program will be highlighted in the taskbar, but the window does not come into focus.
I am using a two-monitor setup, with the secondary display used for OBS Multiview.
Any suggestions? Could this be a Windows 11 setting?

I think I was now able to understand what causes this.

One of the following conditions has to be met for OBS (and thus the advanced scene switcher plugin) to change the foreground window using the Windows API call SetForegroundWindow:

• The calling process is the foreground process.
• The calling process was started by the foreground process.
• There is currently no foreground window, and thus no foreground process.
• The calling process received the last input event.
• Either the foreground process or the calling process is being debugged.

So this is an intentional limitation set by Microsoft and there is not much that can be done about it.
I will make sure to add a note about this limitation to the "Window" action type.

 

[ukie]

I think I was now able to understand what causes this.

One of the following conditions has to be met for OBS (and thus the advanced scene switcher plugin) to change the foreground window using the Windows API call SetForegroundWindow:

• The calling process is the foreground process.
• The calling process was started by the foreground process.
• There is currently no foreground window, and thus no foreground process.
• The calling process received the last input event.
• Either the foreground process or the calling process is being debugged.

So this is an intentional limitation set by Microsoft and there is not much that can be done about it.
I will make sure to add a note about this limitation to the "Window" action type.

Thank you for looking into this. Looks like I am under "There is currently no foreground window, and thus no foreground process."
I wonder if there is any way to overcome this by running a shell command?

 

[Rozenman]

Please do share a crash log - I don't mind it at all! :)

Thank you, I am attaching the crash log.

 

[Warmuptill]

Thank you, I am attaching the crash log.

Appreciate it!

Unless I am misinterpreting it the crash is not caused by the plugin.
The crashing thread seems to be libobs: graphics thread. ("faultingThread": 14)
A call to mallocseems to fail in FT_Load_Glyph.
So, it is probably related to some text source rendering, but I am not really familiar with what is being done there.

 

[Rozenman]

So, it is probably related to some text source rendering,

Oh! This thought flashed through my mind, but I couldn’t verify it. Using two variables, I load the numbers of study groups and the name of the lesson into the text source. Depending on the date. Well, “What can you do?”, as Van Gogh said. Thank you very much!

 

[old_maple]

Ok, so I simply want to loop between two scenes but using macros this simply isn't working, a friend and I spent 3 hours banging our heads together and finally found a solution but it seems the solution is going away?( attached) how can I get this to work with macros? we tried Sequence macros but it stops and doesn't continue to loop. We're either both really dumb (likely) or macros aren't fully working yet for this kind of thing?

 

[old_maple]

Ok, so I simply want to loop between two scenes but using macros this simply isn't working, a friend and I spent 3 hours banging our heads together and finally found a solution but it seems the solution is going away?( attached) how can I get this to work with macros? we tried Sequence macros but it stops and doesn't continue to loop. We're either both really dumb (likely) or macros aren't fully working yet for this kind of thing?

It says development of this tab has stopped and switch to macro's but I can't get it to work for the life of me.

 

[AaronD]

A call to mallocseems to fail in FT_Load_Glyph.
So, it is probably related to some text source rendering, but I am not really familiar with what is being done there.

If malloc fails, that usually means it can't find enough contiguous memory to fit what the program asks for at that point. So malloc either returns NULL, or throws an exception itself, depending on some esoteric details that are different for different systems.

As a programmer, you're supposed to check every time you use malloc, to see if you actually got a valid chunk of memory before you use it. If you got NULL instead, DON'T use it! (and figure out what to do without it) If you try to use NULL, it'll crash with a segmentation fault. If malloc throws its own exception and you don't catch it, that's also a crash.

But a lot of programmers don't bother with all that, because it rarely happens. Especially on their own machines that they actually know and care to spec and maintain well. So they don't check at all and just use whatever malloc comes up with...and we get apps that crash when the overall machine gets low on RAM. If a library does that, then any app that uses the library inherits it, even if the author of the app did everything right.