Re: [PD-dev] Ignoring '5401': doesn't look like a Pd-file
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
one could use the new ::pdwindow::verbose{} rather than post{}.
but really the underlying problem should be fixed sooner than later.
Warnings that happen every time rapidly become meaningless, and
therefore a pointless annoyance. Much better is to fix the underlying
problem:
yes, this is what i was saying.
http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data?view=revrevision=12996
this is what should have been done to fix the problem, and which i
didn't find time to do.
so in the end, it worked out exactly as i imagined:
- i added a more verbose output
- the new output hinted at a problem in the arg parsing
- someone got annoyed by the output
- the underlying problem was fixed
so i'm not sure whether there is a problem with the way i did.
so the next meaningless, and therefore a pointless annoyance to fix is:
WARNING: Font family 'Courier' not found, using default (courier)
let's see who makes the race
mfgasdr
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Re: [PD-dev] Ignoring '5401': doesn't look like a Pd-file
On Jan 16, 2010, at 4:46 AM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
one could use the new ::pdwindow::verbose{} rather than post{}.
but really the underlying problem should be fixed sooner than later.
Warnings that happen every time rapidly become meaningless, and
therefore a pointless annoyance. Much better is to fix the underlying
problem:
yes, this is what i was saying.
http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data?view=revrevision=12996
this is what should have been done to fix the problem, and which i
didn't find time to do.
so in the end, it worked out exactly as i imagined:
- i added a more verbose output
- the new output hinted at a problem in the arg parsing
- someone got annoyed by the output
- the underlying problem was fixed
so i'm not sure whether there is a problem with the way i did.
so the next meaningless, and therefore a pointless annoyance to
fix is:
WARNING: Font family 'Courier' not found, using default (courier)
let's see who makes the race
mfgasdr
IOhannes
Ah, ok, it wasn't clear to me that you had an intention of fixing it.
Agreed on the font warning. I'd like to keep it there for a while to
get some more info on how it affects people, but for the final
release, people shouldn't see it unless there is an actual problem.
.hc
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Re: [PD-dev] Ignoring '5401': doesn't look like a Pd-file
On Jan 14, 2010, at 3:51 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey,
Everytime I run pd 0.43 from the command line like ./pd, I get this:
Ignoring '5401': doesn't look like a Pd-file
yes, here too :-)
and i even know where it comes from...
when you call ./pd-gui.tcl somefile.pd, it will request
somefile.pd
to be opened (by calling open_file{}
if you call ./pd-gui.tcl 5400 it will connect to a running Pd on
port
5400, but it will _also_ think that 5400 is a file to open, and call
open_file 5400
then open_file{} will do a check whether and will only ask Pd-core
to
open the file if it ends with .pd/.pat/.mxt.
since 5400 does not match this criterion it will be discarded.
this is how it has been before i modified the source.
nobody noticed, because open_file silently dropped the illegal file.
what i did is, that i added a warning, if open_file{} discards a file
(because it does not end with .pd/...)
i think this is good, because it tells us, that we are using a bad
hack
here: we are mixing 2 concepts
- the check in open_file{} is there to prevent bad files to be
opened.
- if we call ./pd-gui.tcl 5400 we don't want to specify a file, but
instead a port! we know that this is a port, because it is a number.
we
should not call open_file{} with something which we already know is
not
a file.
so the check has to be done way earlier in the process.
in the meantime i prefer to see the warning (a constant reminder of
the
quirk) rather than drop it.
one could use the new ::pdwindow::verbose{} rather than post{}.
but really the underlying problem should be fixed sooner than later.
Warnings that happen every time rapidly become meaningless, and
therefore a pointless annoyance. Much better is to fix the underlying
problem:
http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data?view=revrevision=12996
.hc
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realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either
change them, or perish.-William Carlos Williams
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