@m_magalhaes said in Identify Critical Stop Please?:
hello,
For your next threads, please help us keeping things organised and clean. I know it's not your priority but it really simplify our work here.
Q&A New Functionality.
About the error it's related to FileName. But we need more information to help more.
Be careful about the other thread, it may happen that we add stuff and the line will not refer to the correct DataType anymore.
Cheers,
Manuel
Dammit! No wonder my code keeps breaking... I can't even follow simple forum instructions lol! But hey, at least I got it down to one link. Haha, progress!
Yes, Filename, that actually makes perfect sense, so I'm pretty confident I've conquered this error. You're right that I shouldn't rely too strongly on those line numbers. Hell, the next bug fix could make that info obsolete, let alone a reference from years ago. But sometimes you can glean value from outdated info. Maybe in the future line 277 doesn't refer to Filename, but if that error pops up and all my Filename calls look to be in good order I might be able to make some guesses that increase my luck in identifying the issue faster. For instance, I might look at string or static text parameters first, thinking that like datatypes may have been grouped together in the source code. If 329 doesn't refer to baselink in the future I might start looking at in/exclude boxes or shader links first for the same reason. Maybe the list of datatypes in the description manual in the sdk is ordered how they are in ge_container.h and I can use that to choose my next lead. Shot in the dark type stuff, for sure, but maybe gets me generally in the right direction.
You know what, this may have to do with me tracking down a weird behavior where Init() seemed to be the cause of every parameter invoking a MSG_DESCRIPTION_POSTSETPARAMETER message on any parameter change... but I have both debugging AND pandemic fog on my brain, so I don't even know exactly which thing I was doing wrong that may have been the culprit, so there's no point getting into all that... doesn't help that a VS Code update seems to like breaking my local git repo's randomly, so that makes reviewing previous code fun. In any case, the error hasn't popped up at all after ensuring all my base container calls were proper and there were no missing parameter initializations. Not that it was a readily reproduce-able error, just one that would pop up sometimes after a heavy testing session... so I had to do a lot of those to ensure it's really gone.
But it does raise a question. Since the Filename object doesn't exist in python, what's the best way to initialize it? Docs say it's a string, but I saw something in a forum post that someone was initializing their filename parameter directly through the base container. I figured this had to do with how the python wrapper is internally converting the path to Filename object or something, so that's what I've been doing, but that WAS from 2013. So which is the proper way to initialize it?
self.InitAttr(node, str, c4d.ID_FILENAME_PARAMETER)
or
data.SetFilename(c4d.ID_FILENAME_PARAMETER, "")
And even if it's the former, do I set its default value through the basecontainer or in the normal way like so:
node[c4d.ID_FILENAME_PARAMETER] = ""
@r_gigante said in Identify Critical Stop Please?:
Hi @kvb, with regard to the scope and purpose of the CriticalStop I warmly recommend you to have a look at:
FAQ
CriticalStop()
Debug and Output Functions
These pages properly explain how the CriticalStop is used in Cinema 4D, how it can be used in plugins and what to expect when it's hit.
In you case, as already pointed out by @m_magalhaes , it's likely you're using a GeData::GetFilename() with a GeData whose type was not a Filename. Please recheck your code and if you don't spot the issue, provide us with an example or snippet to reproduce it.
Cheers, R
Thanks for the links. They'll come in handy on my next project, which will be in c++ (and I will be abusing the hell out of all the debugging options!).
Could it have been caused by the filename returning None? Is that even a thing or just something I noticed while I was missing any initialization on my Filename parameter? I can't see it being anything else... unless an empty string could trigger that error?
Thanks all!
Kevin
