Update to Juce 7.0.12 (should fix Audio/MIDI settings dialog not opening on Ubuntu)

[dgtized]

Bug Description:

Audio/MIDI settings dialog is not opening on Ubuntu.

Surge XT Version

Version: Surge XT 1.3.1.4b53827
Build: 2024-02-06 @ 15:30:18 on '1e9cd081d390/local' with 'GNU-9.4.0' using JUCE 7.0.5
System: Linux 64-bit Standalone on AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / Process block size: 32 samples

• Plugin Type: [VST2, VST3, AU] -- not quite sure, I opened Surge XT as a standalone app.
• Bitness: 64
• Skin: Surge Dark

Reproduction Steps:

Start Surge XT standalone app using Ubuntu's launcher.

Click on the "Options" in the upper left. Menu opens to show "Audio/MIDI settings", clicking on that and nothing opens.

Similarly, on the line below it has a notification in yellow that says "Audio input is muted to avoid feedback loop", and on the right there is a button labeled "Settings ...", clicking on that does not open any dialog.

Expected Behavior:

Clicking on Audio/MIDI settings or the settings button should open the dialog to select MIDI inputs and audio input/output.

Computer Information (please complete the following!):

• OS: Ubuntu 23.10 (mantic)
• Display: Dual 4k (3840x2160) monitors at 100% scaling on Wayland
• Host: [e.g. Bitwig, Logic, Cubase, Reaper] - standalone?

Additional Information:

I haven't been able to reproduce, but once when I clicked on settings since install, it did open the dialog hidden underneath the Surge XT window, so I was able to change the settings once to connect a MIDI keyboard as input. Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce whatever allowed it to work that one time. I've tried to retrace my steps 10+ times (including restarting the computer and reopening Surge XT) but have not been able to reproduce the one time it worked.

Both the load/save current state dialogs open correctly, though sometimes I receive a notification from Zenity like: "Save current state" is ready at the same time the dialog opens.

I installed Surge XT using the .deb I downloaded from the releases for 1.3.1 using dpkg -i. However it did fail on first install as libxcb-cursor0 was missing, so I manually installed that with sudo apt install ibxcb-cursor0 and then repeated the dpkg install.

I also notice that there is very odd behavior on resizing the window, where it appears to "ease" into the new resolution but there is a definite lag. I suspect that is another issue though.

[mkruselj]

This dialog is entirely handled by JUCE, it is not on us. So, this should first be verified by standalones of other JUCE plugins (try Dexed, OB-Xd...) and if it also happens with them, report to JUCE directly. We will not be forking JUCE just to fix this.

I suspect this is somehow related to Wayland.

[dgtized]

I don't know what JUCE is let alone Dexed, OB-Xd, etc, so it's very unlikely I can verify any of this behavior in any other circumstances outside of this application. As a user of this application, I don't know how to distinguish which parts of the UI are in this app or an upstream library.

However, given you identified the upstream project, I looked briefly in the closed issues and found: juce-framework/JUCE#1242, and from that the previously reported (and closed) #7071.

I'm sorry for re-reporting a known issue, but as it was closed I didn't see it, and I certainly was unaware of any history here. Given the issue seems to be ping-ponging between surge and JUCE, maybe it makes sense for one of the projects to leave it as an open issue so folks can see it's still a problem that some folks are encountering on the latest build?

[baconpaul]

Oh right so that means we just need to pull juce to a higher version than our forked 7.0.5

[baconpaul]

Sorry so let me re-open this and we can go to juce 7.0.12 + patches for our next update (and a nightly before that)

[hfiguiere]

Adding this JUCE patch to the flatpak.