[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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