Create HTML Gallery tool chrashes DK

[Maik Qualmann]

I can reproduce the problem on a relatively fast Windows machine here. I use a 
set of 500 images, it doesn't crash all the time, but quite often. It's not a 
lack of memory. I don't know yet if it's a coincidence, but it never crashes 
on square thumbnails, even with the option disabled. I made a change, we'll 
see with the next version.

Maik

Am Montag, 2. Dezember 2024, 20:55:27 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb 
Gilles Caulier:
> Hi,
> 
> It sounds like a memory leak...
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> Le lun. 2 déc. 2024 à 18:33, Andrej Valencic <andrej.valencic at zoho.com> a
> 
> écrit :
> > Hi Maik,
> > 
> > I tested the latest version so here are some observations:
> > 
> > - first time I ran this version it was ok with cca. 200 pictures
> > - then I tried with around 300 photos and DK crashed
> > - I tried again and now it crashes even with around 150 photos
> > - it runs OK with up to cca. 120 photos
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Andrej
> > 
> > On 02/12/2024 12:27, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> > > 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.