Create HTML Gallery tool chrashes DK

[Maik Qualmann]

We have made some changes to the HTML Gallery Tool (image loading etc.). Can 
you please test if the problem can still be reproduced with the current pre-
release version of digiKam-8.6.0 ?

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Maik

Am Freitag, 22. November 2024, 12:48:00 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb 
Andrej Valencic:
> There is some more memory used by DK when I run the tool, but not much -
> about 200MB more before the crash. And I still have about 60% free
> memory on my PC.
> 
> On 22/11/2024 12:33, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > Hum no more info.
> > 
> > But look on the top/right side, the memory allocated rises up just
> > before it crashes. This can be the reason...
> > 
> > Did you confirm ?
> > 
> > Gilles Cauleir
> > 
> > Le ven. 22 nov. 2024 à 11:46, Andrej Valencic
> > 
> > <andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a écrit :
> >     So I tried this with the 8.5.0 version that you pointed to and the
> >     results are a little bit different but not much.
> >     
> >     Regards
> >     
> >     On 22/11/2024 11:32, Andrej Valencic wrote:
> >>     Well, I installed the debug version from here:
> >>     https://files.kde.org/digikam/
> >>     I will try again - I see there is a new build from today.
> >>     
> >>     Regards
> >>     
> >>     On 22/11/2024 11:26, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >>>     Hi,
> >>>     
> >>>     Your digiKam install is not the debug version for Windows. We
> >>>     package Windows installer with debug symbols in the download area :
> >>>     
> >>>     https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/8.5.0/digiKam-8.5.0-Qt6-Win6
> >>>     4-debug.exe.mirrorlist
> >>>     
> >>>     Best
> >>>     
> >>>     Gilles Caulier
> >>>     
> >>>     Le ven. 22 nov. 2024 à 11:18, Andrej Valencic
> >>>     
> >>>     <andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a écrit :
> >>>         Hi Gilles,
> >>>         
> >>>         I tried the debugger run and I got to the point where DK
> >>>         throws an exception. Here is the screenshot of Visual Studio
> >>>         windows (I'm sorry but  don't know any other way how to get
> >>>         the info from VS).
> >>>         
> >>>         Regards,
> >>>         Andrej
> >>>         
> >>>         On 22/11/2024 10:09, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >>>>         Hi Andrej,
> >>>>         
> >>>>         The log does not show any value to hack the problem.
> >>>>         
> >>>>         It's better to run digiKam in the debugger to see where the
> >>>>         crash appears in source code. Please follow instruction
> >>>>         from this page :
> >>>>         
> >>>>         https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#dealing-with-crashes-in-dig
> >>>>         ikam
> >>>>         
> >>>>         best
> >>>>         
> >>>>         Gilles Caulier
> >>>>         
> >>>>         
> >>>>         Le ven. 22 nov. 2024 à 10:03, Andrej Valencic
> >>>>         
> >>>>         <andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a écrit :
> >>>>             Hello!
> >>>>             
> >>>>             Anybody has recent experience with the Create Html
> >>>>             Gallery tool?
> >>>>             
> >>>>             I used to use it a couple of time in the past and it
> >>>>             worked OK but now
> >>>>             it crashes DK if I try to use this tool on some bigger
> >>>>             number of
> >>>>             photos.  I'm using latest 8.6.0 DK on Win11 with 32GB
> >>>>             of RAM and
> >>>>             internal SSD drive. If I use a smaller number of photos
> >>>>             it works but
> >>>>             with a big gallery it crashes - I'm not sure where the
> >>>>             limit is but it
> >>>>             definitely crashes if I chose more than 100 items to
> >>>>             add to the gallery.
> >>>>             In the past with some older version of DK I easily made
> >>>>             html gallery
> >>>>             with more than 400 items!
> >>>>             
> >>>>             Included is the log file from DK start and ends when it
> >>>>             crashes.