SLiMgui freezes when looking at the description for custom plots

[vsudbrack]

When accessing "About This Graph..." in a custom plot, SLiMgui freezes and becomes irresponsive (at least on MacOS 26). A simple example is adding the following line to the New File default recipe:

1000 late() { slimgui.createPlot("Test"); }

Since we're talking about it, could it be an interesting idea to let the user set a description inside createPlot or in a dedicated method for plots? Could be a nice way to be able to add more details about a plot when sharing code; or keeping track of some metadata, like the last generation the plot was updated.

[bhaller]

When accessing "About This Graph..." in a custom plot, SLiMgui freezes and becomes irresponsive (at least on MacOS 26)...

Huh, that's odd. On my machine it works fine; the description shown is:

The Custom Plot graph type displays user-provided data that is supplied in script with createPlot() and subsequent calls.

No extra steps are needed to reproduce this, on your machine? What about other plots (built-in plots) – do their descriptions display correctly?

Since we're talking about it, could it be an interesting idea to let the user set a description inside createPlot or in a dedicated method for plots?

Sure; not in createPlot() (which is gunked up with enough options already :->), but I can certainly add a property for it.

Could be a nice way to be able to add more details about a plot when sharing code;

yes

or keeping track of some metadata, like the last generation the plot was updated.

For this, note that the Plot class is a subclass of Dictionary (as for almost all built-in classes in SLiM), so you can just use setValue() / getValue() to attach state to a plot.

[bhaller]

What version of Qt is SLiMgui built against? (That is visible in the About panel of SLiMgui, bottom left.) Is this in SLiM 6 (e.g., multitrait) or in SLiM 5.2?

[vsudbrack]

Good point, in fact all descriptions freeze my SLiMgui (even population graph, fitness over time, etc). Their description appear correctly, but the "ok" bottom is irresponsive and the only alternative is to close SLiM altogether.

My version is 5.2, and Qt 6.7.2, build 1a5538a

[bhaller]

Good point, in fact all descriptions freeze my SLiMgui (even population graph, fitness over time, etc). Their description appear correctly, but the "ok" bottom is irresponsive and the only alternative is to close SLiM altogether.

My version is 5.2, and Qt 6.7.2, build 1a5538a

OK, interesting. Hmm. This is almost certainly a Qt bug; in 6.7.2 on macOS 26 there is presumably a bug. Works fine for me with SLiM 5.2, Qt 6.7.2, on macOS 14.8.9. They are now on Qt 6.11, and 6.12 is in final testing; I wonder whether it fixes this problem. Well, for the time being my advice is: don't do that. :-> But I'll keep this issue open. If I can't resolve the problem somehow, maybe I will remove that menu item for the time being; it's pretty fringe anyway, really. Thanks for the report!