[PD-dev] Ignoring '5401': doesn't look like a Pd-file

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sat Jan 16 18:58:10 CET 2010


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=rev&revision=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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