Phantomjs 1.9.2 engine fails during sprite generation due to use of deprecated method

[tarcon]

Fatal error: 2013-09-17 15:18:00.977 phantomjs[70790:707] * WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor in class NSView is deprecated on 10.7 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use convertRectToBacking: instead.

This is a warning in the current phantomjs version. The grunt task that uses this engine exaggerates and fails at that point.

[twolfson]

Interesting, I will take a look by the end of this weekend.

[twolfson]

Looking into this now.

[twolfson]

Alright, looks like no problems inside of phantomjssmith. It runs fine with both 1.9.1 and 1.9.2. I will look into testing 1.9.2 on grunt-spritesmith next.

[twolfson]

Added 1.9.2 to grunt-spritesmith on a separate branch. Looks like the tests are passing without any warning messages in that case as well. Can you provide me more information about your setup (e.g. OS, how you installed phantomjs, grunt version, node version)?

https://travis-ci.org/Ensighten/grunt-spritesmith/builds/11673118

[me-ascii]

+1 also have this error

grunt-spritesmith@1.8.0
phantomjs@1.9.2
node@0.10.18

[twolfson]

@me-ascii What OS are you using?

[ingebretsen]

+1

I'm also having this issue. It only appears on my retina MBP and only when I'm not plugged into an external display (only when the retina display is in use).

grunt-spritesmith@1.8.0
phantomjs@1.9.1

Here's the specific error:

Fatal error: 2013-10-02 19:50:34.142 phantomjs[41474:707] * WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor in class NSView is deprecated on 10.7 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use convertRectToBacking: instead.

[twolfson]

@ingebretsen Awesome, thanks. I will see how far I can get tonight attempting to reproduce this.

[ingebretsen]

Note: I reverted to phantomjs 1.9.0 and the issue seems to have gone away. I had a homebrew install of phantomjs. If anyone wants to revert to a previous version using homebrew and see if that fixes the issue, I used this guide: https://coderwall.com/p/lqphzg

[twolfson]

Alright, I just attempted to reproduce on Sauce Labs and failed. I am noticing that your grunt-spritesmith is not the latest. Can you upgrade to 1.11.0 and see if the latest phantomjs works?

If it is still failing, can you clone the PhantomJS engine, install its dependencies, and run it?

git clone https://github.com/twolfson/phantomjssmith
cd phantomjssmith
npm install
npm test

https://github.com/twolfson/phantomjssmith

[twolfson]

Hey guys, good news. This seems to be a deeper problem with Qt which phantomjs is based on:

thoughtbot/capybara-webkit#483

ariya/phantomjs#11612

I think I will implement a hackish patch which ignores the first line if it contains WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor

[twolfson]

Alright, this has been patched and released in the phantomjs engine (phantomjssmith) as a patch version (0.1.9). As a result, if you update your node_modules, this change should be automatically picked up and PhantomJS 1.9.2 will work. Sorry for the inconvenience.