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06-05-2019, 07:17 AM
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I am investigating this issue with several users right now as I'm unable to reproduce it myself on any of the machines I've tested on. I should hopefully have an idea about what is causing the issue very soon. If you need to downgrade immediately so that you can use the app, contact me at mike@zubersoft.com, otherwise an update should be available within a day or two if I can locate the source of the issue today.
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I'm having the same problem on Surface Pro 4. !!!
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I have located the cause of this problem. When I query for available MIDI devices, if a bluetooth MIDI device shows up in the list (meaning it appears in device manager), then I attempt to connect to it using the approach recommended by Microsoft in their documentation. However, if the device is not actually connected, the call to connect hangs forever. So I'm having to make some significant changes to the code I was using to query for available MIDI devices and connect. As a workaround, users experiencing this problem can unpair with the MIDI bluetooth device and remove it from device manager. Then MobileSheets will connect successfully. I'm working on putting together an update right now to fix the issue.
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You could try connecting to it in a thread - this would prevent the GUI freezing (but obviously harder to code)
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I did try that at first, but I didn't want to leave zombie threads around (await/async makes this messier than normal threads). My new approach works alright though.
Another user told me that turning off Bluetooth was enough to get past this issue. So that's another workaround until my update is approved.
Mike
