[PD-dev] verbose(), sys_verbose, and recommended practice

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey Martin,

I think this would be a good question for pd-dev, hope you don't mind  
that I forwarded it there:

On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:10 PM, <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> <martin.peach at sympatico.ca 
 > wrote:

>
> Hi Hans,
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. I guess the new recommended practice  
> is to use
>     if (sys_verbose) post()
> for non-essential messages, and pd_error() for problems?
> If so I guess I should make my externals consistent with that.
>
> Martin
>
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>> From: hans at at.or.at
>> To: martin.peach at sympatico.ca
>> Subject: verbose mode
>> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:49:01 -0500
>>
>>
>> Hey Martin,
>>
>> I just saw this check-in. Do you know about the sys_verbose in
>> s_stuff.h and verbose() in m_pd.h? Its the global built-in stuff for
>> verbosity. IOhannes has been trying to make it more useful, but it is
>> somewhat useful now.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
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>>> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:44:37 +0000
>>> From: mrpeach at users.sourceforge.net
>>> Subject: [PD-cvs] SF.net SVN: pure-data:[13193]
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>>> Revision: 13193
>>> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/pure-data/?rev=13193&view=rev
>>> Author: mrpeach
>>> Date: 2010-03-02 17:44:36 +0000 (Tue, 02 Mar 2010)
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>>> Log Message:
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>>> Added a verbosity method to stop [tcpclient] printing in the main
>>> window every time it connects/disconnects.
>>> Updated the help patch to match.
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>>> trunk/externals/mrpeach/net/tcpclient-help.pd
>>> trunk/externals/mrpeach/net/tcpclient.c
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