Serious serious Codea crash


SwatchWheel Kit.zip (410.1 KB)

I’ve made a little doodling project.

If I doodle with it on my iPhone, it works fine, for a while.

But if I doodle for too long it crashes Codea HARD.

Like I’ve never seen a crash this hard.

What makes it so hard? The crash persists across launches.

To reproduce:

  • run project
  • doodle your heart away
  • Codea will crash sooner or later
  • open Codea again
  • run project again
  • now project will crash before it even starts
  • open Codea again and run project again
  • Codea will continue to crash over and over every time you launch the project without even getting started running the project

I’ve set Claude loose on trying to solve this for days and it can’t do it. Help please @sim or @jfperusse or @Steppers or anyone?

Wow nice find. I haven’t reproduced it yet - how long is too long?

I tried scribbling on my iPhone 14 Pro for about 10 mins and no crash. Does your project store any persistent data?

10 minutes!
I don’t think I’ve reached five minutes yet.
It’s the exact same project I posted here—it doesn’t store any data afaik.


I doodled this on the version you posted on Discord. Did you do any doodles you liked?