[PD-dev] status of verbose() in 0.43?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:38 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2011-02-23 09:05, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> On 2011-02-22 23:26, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>> This would be very nice, I could see being about to double-click any
>>> line in the log and have it pop up which object made the log  
>>> message.  I
>>> won't have time to implement this in the foreseeable future.
>>
>> well, the thing is that for now we only have to reserve an additional
>> variable "objectID" for the logpost(), which could be NULL/empty.
>>
>> logpost(objectID, level, msg,...)
>>
>> then, time permitting, fill in the missing code on both the C and the
>> tcl side.
>>
>> i only try to avoid re-defining functions in each release.
>>
>
> anyhow, here is a draft for how this would work (to be applied on  
> top of
> pd-extended.git#fac011b1)
>
> apart from changing the logpost() functions, it also adds a new global
> method to Pd that allows for selecting/highlighting an object based  
> on a
> symbolic representation of it's address.
>
> like alway, most work was spent in trying to figure out things in  
> tcl :-)


Now I'm starting to think that these would be appropriate levels, and  
use both the number and the name for the Log menu:

0 fatal
1 error
2 normal
3 info
ALL

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