Golly 3.0b3

[Andrew]

EDIT: Links to 3.0b3 have been removed because Golly 3.0 is now available from Sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/ ... golly-3.0/

If you're using any of the beta versions of 3.0 then make sure you upgrade!

[Saka]

Noice. So, please tell us the exact cause of that weird crash bug.

[Andrew]

Noice. So, please tell us the exact cause of that weird crash bug.

https://sourceforge.net/p/golly/code/ci ... 5e35f495b/

[drc]

I don't like how the 'converting pattern' dialogue triggers a notification, and occasionally makes the Golly window gain focus. I'm running 3.0b3, by the way, on windows 7 64 bit.

[muzik]

Still getting that bug where I get spammed with error messages after 7 generations of running this pattern:

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x = 1, y = 1, rule = R500,C0,M0,S0..0,B1..1,NM
o!

[Andrew]

I don't like how the 'converting pattern' dialogue triggers a notification...

You only get that progress dialog if Golly is switching to a different algorithm and the current algorithm contains a very large pattern and the conversion process takes longer than about 2 seconds. There are important reasons for showing the dialog:

1. It tells you that Golly is doing something and hasn't just hung.
2. It lets you cancel the conversion if you don't really want the old pattern in the new algorithm.

[Andrew]

Still getting that bug where I get spammed with error messages ...

It's not spam and it's not an error message. It's a warning to let you know that the pattern has grown too big for the LtL algorithm and can't be generated any further. See Help > Algorithms > Larger than Life for details about the limits in an unbounded universe (it ain't really unbounded).

If you're saying you still see that message appearing in a loop and Golly crashes then you must still be using 3.0b2, so delete that version from your system.

[muzik]

Tested it on both 3.0b2 and 3.0b3, and it still happens on both.

[Andrew]

Tested it on both 3.0b2 and 3.0b3, and it still happens on both.

I don't see any bug on my WinXP or Win7 systems. Can anybody else confirm if 3.0b3 still crashes on Windows with muzik's pattern?

EDIT: @muzik? Did you download 3.0b3 again as I said in the top post? You might be using the old build of 3.0b3 I did just for drc/dvgrn to test. When you start up the new 3.0b3 build there should NOT be any OpenGL info in the status bar.

[rowett]

It works fine for me on Windows 10 64bit and Windows XP 64bit using 64bit Golly 3.0b3.

[muzik]

Can't believe I was stupid enough to not consider that - need to try it when I get home.

[muzik]

yup, seems to be fixed.

[drc]

Can we have 'History' rules natively supported for non-totalistic rules?