[PD] [spectrogram~] won't show anything

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Mon Dec 12 19:12:02 CET 2011


On Dec 8, 2011, at 7:30 AM, katja wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Caio Barros <caio.barros at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> This bug in [sqrt~] was reported on the list some time ago. It is in
>>> nightly builds of Pd-extended 0.43.1. There is a bug report on the
>>> bugtracker. Consider adding a comment there with the build details.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3442082&group_id=55736&atid=478070
>>> 
>> Done!
> 
> 
> In the meantime, you could use [pow~] with exponent 0.5. But, while
> I'm typing this and check if it's true, I notice that [pow~]'s
> arguments are swapped again. In 0.42.5 it was finally matching [pow]
> (base at left inlet and exponent at right inlet, so you can also type
> the exponent as init argument) and now it's back again the 'wrong way
> round'. What could be the rationale behind this? In vanilla
> 0.43.1test5 it is 'the right way round', with exponent at the right
> inlet. But in vanilla, [pow~]'s init argument is ignored without
> warning. Two more buglets to be reported and fixed...

Hopefully this should also be fixed now since d_math.c is included again in Pd-extended.  My guess is that it was caused by not having 'vanilla' as a startup lib, therefore it would find pow~ from cyclone first.

.hc


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