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<pre wrap="">Starting Pd like this "$ LANG=C pd" didn't solve the error, the plugin~-help file was still white. But changing these settings did solve the problem:
in ubuntu studio/Settings manager > Language support > Regional Formats : display numbers, dates and currency in the usual format for: English (UK)
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and next restart the computer. My previous setting for displaying
numbers was "Deutsch"<br>
I'm glad that the problem is solved, thanks for the suggestion!<br>
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Hans<br>
On 03/08/2017 03:51 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at">zmoelnig@iem.at</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 03/08/2017 03:34 PM, Hans Roels wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello,
When I try to open the plugin~-help file from the Pd browser, the whole
window is white and all objects in the file are invisible. This is the
error message:
(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: bad screen distance "-75,000000"
while executing
"$tkcanvas create text $x $y -tags $tags -text $text -fill $color
-anchor nw -font [get_font_for_size $font_size]"
(procedure "pdtk_text_new" line 2)
invoked from within
"pdtk_text_new .xe88180.c {.xe88180.tf3b1d0 msg text} -75,000000
538,000000 {pddp} 10 black"
("uplevel" body line 4)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 $docmds"(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: bad screen distance "86,000000"
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this looks like a problem with locales.
i guess you are using Pd in a Belgian (or similar) locale, and when
creating a [plugin~] object (done by the help-patch), tcl suddenly
starts formatting floating-point values with "," as the decimal mark
rather than ".", breaking everything.
i remember similar things when working on [pdgst].
try forcing the locale of Pd to "C", with something like:
$ LANG=C pd
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<pre wrap="">Is this perhaps related to the screen resolution of my laptop?
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<pre wrap="">i don't think so.
fsa,rd
IOhannes
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