[PD] Pd Console (fwd)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Thomas Grill wrote:

> a while ago i announced and introduced a modification to the
> devel_0_37 branch which implements the ability to hook the console
> output - it's a mechanism that allows multiple listeners (via
> callbacks) to eavesdrop on the printouts. Is there any specific reason
> why you didn't take on this patch? Your widget could easily use it,
> while leaving open other forms of console output. The respective API
> functions of devel_0_37 are sys_addprinthook and sys_rmprinthook.

Good question. The reason is that enough messages get posted around here
that I often delete many quite quickly, and sometimes I miss something
interesting, thinking it's not.

Besides, I don't use devel_0_37, because I don't know what are the several
branches of Pd, how they relate to each other, what are the differences,
and which one I should use.

If your patch is complete, then it would be a good idea to use it in a
future version of mine, as there are many stderr messages I don't actually
handle at all. I think many/most error messages still get sent to
stderr...

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Mathieu Bouchard                       http://artengine.ca/matju