HISE crashes when changing projects

[d.healey]

Yeah this has been mentioned before, it's annoying but we've all been living with it :p I find it happens more when switching more complex projects.

[gorangrooves]

There are 3 options for saving as XML right now. Which one should I use to make sure everything I have in my HIP file gets saved?

1. Save as XML
2. Save as XML- NOT WORKING (shift+ctrl+S)
3. Create recovery XML from HIP

Will a single XML contain everything in the way a HIP file does?

[d.healey]

Use 1 for now. 2 will be available soon.

There's something weird with your version of HISE (or maybe it's a typo). Those labels and shortcuts are wrong:

[ustk]

@gorangrooves CTRL + O is for opening an XML, there's no shortcut for "Saving As"

[gorangrooves]

My bad with ctrl+o. So, use "Save as XML"?

[ustk]

@gorangrooves Yeah do like @d-healey said, Save As XML for now. Then Save XML once Christoph has merged the last pull request

[gorangrooves]

Great. Thank you!

[Casey Kolb]

What's the advantage to Save XML vs Save Preset? I know the XMLs are human-readable, but is there another benefit I'm unaware of?

[d.healey]

@Lunacy-Audio XML is git readable, which means it can be tracked for version control. If HISE crashes and it corrupts your .hip file there is almost nothing you can do (sometimes the recover to XML works but not always). If an XML gets corrupted you can just open it up and manually fix the problem, or revert to an earlier commit.

I almost never use .hip except for tests and as an emergency backup (because my twitchy fingers auto press CTRL+S).

[Casey Kolb]

@d-healey Gotcha. That makes sense. I guess I'm always saving so frequently that I just default to .hip for convenience. Save XML shortcut feature will be dope!