REAPER Update Utility - Page 9

FeedTheCat · 11-18-2021, 03:02 PM

Fixed. Reopening the last active project after the installation will now only work when the internal option "Run script on startup" is checked.

MonkeyBars · 11-18-2021, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

Fixed. Reopening the last active project after the installation will now only work when the internal option "Run script on startup" is checked.

Confirmed fixed! well done

MonkeyBars · 11-25-2021, 10:19 PM

I love UU so much thank you again FTC

JonLinnarson · 02-13-2022, 12:49 PM

Hi, FeedTheCat! First of all: I love this utility and really thinks it makes the Reaper experience much smoother.

However, the last couple of times I've updated with RUU it doesn't actually update to the new version. It says "downloading" after I click v6.47, closes Reaper and the User Account Control window pops up, but when Reaper opens again it's still on v6.46. I've only had to redo it once or twice before it actually does the update, but now it doesn't matter how many times I'm clicking on the new version. It seems to be stuck on v6.46 :S

I know that I could just go and download v6.47 from the reaper.fm, but I thought I would share my issue here first, just in case there is a bug or something.

I'm also thinking that maybe it's some Windows setting I've changed that might cause it? I recently disabled Power Shell for instance. Could that have something to do with it?

EDIT: Btw, I'm on Win 10 Pro 21H2 19044.1526 and using regular Reaper install (not portable).

FeedTheCat · 02-13-2022, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JonLinnarson

Hi, FeedTheCat! First of all: I love this utility and really thinks it makes the Reaper experience much smoother.

Glad to hear it

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Originally Posted by JonLinnarson

I'm also thinking that maybe it's some Windows setting I've changed that might cause it? I recently disabled Power Shell for instance. Could that have something to do with it?

Yes, the script uses powershell to download REAPER (it's the only thing I found that also works with Win7,8 etc).

Out of curiosity, why did you disable it?

Edit:
You could try and modify line 1027 to

Code:

if false and platform:match('Win') then

so that curl will be used instead of powershell like on MacOS and Linux. I think this should work on Win10, but if I remember correctly curl on Win10 is just an alias for some other command. Maybe that uses powershell under the hood as well, not sure.

JonLinnarson · 02-13-2022, 02:20 PM

Okay! Thanks for the help

I had some crypto malware stuff that added a registry key that somehow always recreated itself with the help of power shell (if I understood it correctly). I got some support from a forum where a user told me to disable power shell while I removed the malware and then I could enable it again, but I just never came around to doing it. The malware is gone so I might as well enable power shell again.

lexaproductions · 02-13-2022, 05:55 PM

Hey FeedThecat:
I also get this error:
Could not parse download link!
OS: macOS-arm64
Arch: arm64

Upon starting the script

Do you have an idea?

FeedTheCat · 02-14-2022, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by lexaproductions

Hey FeedThecat:
I also get this error:
Could not parse download link!
OS: macOS-arm64
Arch: arm64

Upon starting the script

Do you have an idea?

Oo, the script was still looking for and old beta M1 REAPER version. I pushed a small update so that it will correctly use the universal installer now. That said, I haven't yet been able to confirm whether it will work on the new M1 Arm-MacOS things at all (there might be other issues). If you try again, please let me know what happens.

lexaproductions · 02-14-2022, 07:00 AM

Thanks a lot. It seems to be working. I don't know all the functionalities well but the script starts fine and updates.

Could get the dev build, but I'm not sure if it's something I didn't understand on how it works.

You may want to push it to reapack as well. And you may want to look into making such a nice tool retina compatible.

Thanks a lot for your time.

FeedTheCat · 02-14-2022, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by lexaproductions

Thanks a lot. It seems to be working. I don't know all the functionalities well but the script starts fine and updates.

Nice, if that works, everything else should work as well.

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Originally Posted by lexaproductions

You may want to push it to reapack as well.

It is on ReaPack, just import my repository.

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Originally Posted by lexaproductions

And you may want to look into making such a nice tool retina compatible.

Hmm, yeah maybe. What's wrong with it on retina? Is the window too small?

lexaproductions · 02-14-2022, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

It is on ReaPack, just import my repository.

Hmm, yeah maybe. What's wrong with it on retina? Is the window too small?

1= I know it is. But this morning your update was not there.
2= the window stays the same size but the drawing on it gets blurry

There was a thread about making scripts retina-compatible.

JonLinnarson · 03-04-2022, 01:49 AM

Hmm... now I'm encountering the same problem again with Update Utility not actually updating when I click on the new (v6.50) version. It seemed like it started working again when I enabled Powershell again last time, but maybe it was just a fluke?

I have no idea what the problem might be this time unfortunately :/ I can't think of anything I've changed with my system, other than the Powershell thing, lately. I have Powershell enabled now though.

Win 10 Pro 21H2 19044.1526 and using regular Reaper install (not portable).

FeedTheCat · 03-04-2022, 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by JonLinnarson

Hmm... now I'm encountering the same problem again with Update Utility not actually updating when I click on the new (v6.50) version. It seemed like it started working again when I enabled Powershell again last time, but maybe it was just a fluke?

I have no idea what the problem might be this time unfortunately :/ I can't think of anything I've changed with my system, other than the Powershell thing, lately. I have Powershell enabled now though.

Win 10 Pro 21H2 19044.1526 and using regular Reaper install (not portable).

It still works on my Win10 installation. If you send me a log file, I might be able to see what's going wrong on your system. Enable Debugging > Log to file and perform an update.

JonLinnarson · 03-06-2022, 09:34 AM

Sorry for late reply, was away during the weekend.

Here is the log file: https://stash.reaper.fm/43952/update-utility.log

FeedTheCat · 03-07-2022, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by JonLinnarson

Sorry for late reply, was away during the weekend.

Here is the log file: https://stash.reaper.fm/43952/update-utility.log

Thanks, I'm looking into it. I think I managed to replicate it once with v6.51, but now everything just works again...

JonLinnarson · 03-08-2022, 02:09 AM

I tried again, now with the 6.51 version, but still no luck :/

I know that it has happened before that it hasn't worked on or two times, and then it suddenly works again, but now it seems to be stuck on 6.49 just like when I had PowerShell disabled (and I've double checked that PowerShell is enabled).

Btw, I noticed that I have PowerShell 5.1 installed. Should I update to 7.2.1?

JonLinnarson · 03-09-2022, 12:15 PM

@FeedTheCat

Today I tried updating Reaper manually when I noticed that I couldn't. I just got a error message saying something about it can't write to the current reaper.exe file. I'm guessing this is why Update Utility couldn't update Reaper either.

Anyways, I noticed that Windows had downloaded an update today as well and wanted me to reboot. I did that and had no problem updating Reaper manually afterwards. Weird :S

If I run into the same problem with Update Utility for 6.52 I'll let you know, but I'm guessing it will work just fine now.

FeedTheCat · 03-10-2022, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JonLinnarson

@FeedTheCat

Today I tried updating Reaper manually when I noticed that I couldn't. I just got a error message saying something about it can't write to the current reaper.exe file. I'm guessing this is why Update Utility couldn't update Reaper either.

Anyways, I noticed that Windows had downloaded an update today as well and wanted me to reboot. I did that and had no problem updating Reaper manually afterwards. Weird :S

If I run into the same problem with Update Utility for 6.52 I'll let you know, but I'm guessing it will work just fine now.

Good to know. I've been working on a better debugging system so that hopefully it will be easier to diagnose such issues in the future. Let me know if there's issues with the next update.

vitalker · 03-10-2022, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

Good to know. I've been working on a better debugging system so that hopefully it will be easier to diagnose such issues in the future. Let me know if there's issues with the next update.

Maybe this will be helpful: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=262893

Spookye · 03-29-2022, 04:17 AM

Hi FTC .... this error window has been appearing for some time now. How can I get it to work again ?? I don't use it to update but only to watch the developments .... The version is 1.7.6

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FeedTheCat · 03-29-2022, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Spookye

Hi FTC .... this error window has been appearing for some time now. How can I get it to work again ?? I don't use it to update but only to watch the developments .... The version is 1.7.6

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Oo, is this on Windows?

Spookye · 03-29-2022, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

Oo, is this on Windows?

... yes in Windows 7 ..... but until some time ago it did not give errors ....

FeedTheCat · 03-31-2022, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Spookye

... yes in Windows 7 ..... but until some time ago it did not give errors ....

Is it still there with the latest dev version? I'll have some time tomorrow to look into it.

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

Is it still there with the latest dev version? I'll have some time tomorrow to look into it.

I tried a few days ago, to regress the version ... he did not move from his mistake. Nothing appears on the gui .... it opens with the error window. Thanks .... just wanted to find out if it was restorable.

FeedTheCat · 03-31-2022, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Spookye

I tried a few days ago, to regress the version ... he did not move from his mistake. Nothing appears on the gui .... it opens with the error window. Thanks .... just wanted to find out if it was restorable.

Hmm, could you maybe edit the script and add one line (a print function) at line 729:

Like this:

Code:

if dev_dlink then
    print(dev_dlink, true)
    dev_version = dev_dlink:match(pattern):gsub('(.)', '%1.', 1)
else
...

Would really help me to know what this will print out on your system.

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

Hmm, could you maybe edit the script and add one line (a print function) at line 729:

Like this:

Code:

if dev_dlink then
    print(dev_dlink, true)
    dev_version = dev_dlink:match(pattern):gsub('(.)', '%1.', 1)
else
...

Would really help me to know what this will print out on your system.

... hmm I really don't have the ability to fiddle with scripts. I can't find the line number. I'd rather wait ... I'll send you a snapshot .... what I managed to understand .....

FeedTheCat · 03-31-2022, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Spookye

... hmm I really don't have the ability to fiddle with scripts. I can't find the line number. I'd rather wait ... I'll send you a snapshot .... what I managed to understand .....

Yeah, that's it. Can you add the line there and then run the script?

Afterwards just reinstall using ReaPack to make sure you didn't change anything else by accident.

(Line number is on the bottom right, in your picture it says 1/1091, but you have to click somewhere in the window for it show the correct one)

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

Yeah, that's it. Can you add the line there and then run the script?

Afterwards just reinstall using ReaPack to make sure you didn't change anything else by accident.

(Line number is on the bottom right, in your picture it says 1/1091, but you have to click somewhere in the window for it show the correct one)

Ok ... found line 729 with click below ... I'll try. Again .... Do I add or replace the whole line ??

FeedTheCat · 03-31-2022, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Spookye

Ok ... found line 729 with click below ... I'll try. Again .... Do I add or replace the whole line ??

Add

Code:

print(dev_dlink, true)

below

Code:

if dev_dlink then

like this:

Code:

if dev_dlink then
    print(dev_dlink, true)
    dev_version = dev_dlink:match(pattern):gsub('(.)', '%1.', 1)
else

then when you start the script, it should print something to the REAPER console

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 01:31 PM

FeedTheCat · 03-31-2022, 01:37 PM

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

Add

Code:

print(dev_dlink, true)

below

Code:

if dev_dlink then

like this:

Code:

if dev_dlink then
    print(dev_dlink, true)
    dev_version = dev_dlink:match(pattern):gsub('(.)', '%1.', 1)
else

then when you start the script, it should print something to the REAPER console

I think I did it right ....... and now line 730 gives me error ...

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 01:48 PM

... wait .... I have to move "print" forward ??

FeedTheCat · 03-31-2022, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Spookye

... wait .... I have to move "print" forward ??

no it doesn't matter,

doesn't the Reascript console window now open when you run the script?

Here's what it says on my end:

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 01:54 PM

... even moving the line exactly as written by you, it returns me line error 730 ....

FeedTheCat · 03-31-2022, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Spookye

... even moving the line exactly as written by you, it returns me line error 730 ....

It should open another window (the reascript console), not the one that has the error message (Reascript Error).

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

no it doesn't matter,

doesn't the Reascript console window now open when you run the script?

Here's what it says on my end:

.... this window opens ....

FeedTheCat · 03-31-2022, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Spookye

.... this window opens ....

Isn't there another window? Maybe on a second monitor? (Check my post above)

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 02:06 PM

... and if I click the "Vai all'errore" (Go to error) button it highlights the line under the one I added (dev_version etc.)

Spookye · 03-31-2022, 02:10 PM

Wait ... I tried to run it again ..... true as you say Now this appears ......