[PD] Ability to access error messages from patch

Peter P. peterparker at fastmail.com
Mon Jun 14 10:37:09 CEST 2021


* Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> [2021-06-14 10:24]:
[...]
> I am wondering about that, too. Maybe a [pderror] would be canvas-local 
> and only report errors from objects belonging to the local canvas? And
> it would prepend the name of the object to the message?
Yes, that's a good idea, but what if there are two identical objects on
the same canvas?

> 'text /tmp/foo.txt: can't open'
> 'text /tmp/foo.txt: read failed'
I think this could be solved with an extra outlet to [textfile],
[soundfiler], [readsf~] and similar objects without going through the
hassle of inventing a completely parsable error-message object.





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