[PD-dev] pdwindow as syslog

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sun Jan 17 20:02:39 CET 2010


On Jan 17, 2010, at 1:31 PM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:

> Quoting "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at>:
>>>
>>> please bear in mind that english is not my mother tongue.
>>> ...oh, it seems like the "linecolor?" does not finish the sentence.
>>
>> linecolor? is the tag name,
>
> this became clear to me only afterwards. i thought "?" was meant as  
> interpunctuation, not as wildcard.
>
>> ie linecolor0, linecolor1.  I think the tag should be renamed  
>> alternatingpost0, alternatingpost1 and have it based on post rather  
>> than line.
>
>
>>
>> IIRC, one function was posting with the linecolor0/1 tags and the  
>> other with the verbose/syslog style tags.
>
> ah, no: one function was using the tag "errortext", another the tags  
> "verbose?", and yet another used "linecolor?".
> for me, "linecolor?" represented "ordinary text", rather than "every  
> other line, regardless of texttype".
>
>> I am saying all posts should have both a linecolor/alternatingpost  
>> tag and a verbose/syslog level tag.
>
> makes sense. (the "verbose/syslog level tag" are rather "post",  
> "error", "verbose?"; according to the Pd API)


Hmm, I am not sure it makes sense to have three systems (alternating,  
post/error, and verbosity level).  How about just alternating and  
verbosity level, then assigning post and error a verbosity level?

.hc

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