Slow Glass Issues and Hints

Known Issues

Slow Glass started simple but is starting to collapse under its own complexity, especially as regards the main action processing loop which is a mass of special cases and unexpected side effects and really needs a complete rewrite.

Some of the issues that I have noticed (with any workarounds I have found) are listed here.

Creating and Placing a Group Within the Same Cue

If you create and then try to place it in the same list of actions (i.e. under the same cue) then takes on a wild size, thousands of times too big. Don’t know why.

Create the group in one cue (e.g. under setup) and place it in another (e.g. under begin or just use after 1 second.

Starting Scenes and Accessing Scene Variables

You cannot start a scene and access its variables *unless* the variable is created in either of the setup or begin cues of the newly started scene.

Variables that are created, or have their values modified once the new new scene is running may or may not be available to external programs, depending on the relative timings. It is best not to rely on side-effects using external variable access.