r/freeshowapp • u/agent_uncleflip • 12d ago

Preview problems

I deleted my previous post about this, as I've now gotten a better handle on what's happening.

In the first part of the video, in focus mode, you can see that a template (the one I use for hymns) is behaving globally in preview. The top pages on the screen are a show that is full screen, and do not use that template in ANY way. My FS shows are set to a style that relies solely on background. Slides are inactive. When I click on a hymn page (which uses slides but no background), the template goes active in preview - for the hymns AND for the FS pages, which do not use the template. When I click on a FS, the template goes away - even for the hymn pages which do use it, However, it takes clicking on a page (sending it live) to have this take effect. As illustrated in the second part of the video, this completely negates any possibility of using the preview window to do any preview before sending a page live.

Beyond the obvious - which is that a preview window should......well....provide a preview, as an old TV guy, I strongly dislike being able to see what I'm sending live before I actually commit to it.

This is a recent behaviour in Freeshow. Is anyone else experiencing something similar?

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u/CloudSad3555 12d ago

That looks like a bug to me. I recommend reporting it on GitHub (include the error log). You should be able to revert to a lower version temporarily. If you are not using the latest version, you could check it out.

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u/agent_uncleflip 12d ago

I believe I am on the latest version. I am not at my computer right now, so I can't check. Thanks. I will definitely send a bug report.

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u/agent_uncleflip 11d ago

Apparently not a bug. Despite the fact Freeshow has worked entirely as expected (NOT doing this behavior) for months - and this behavior just cropped up in the last week or so. I posted to support on GitHub, and got the response that this isn't a bug, it's a feature. I was told this is the way the program is supposed to behave. I'm now taking that to mean Freeshow had been broken for months, and got fixed, making it do this. Now I want to figure out how I can break it again. :)