[PD] pd 0.38 printing to shell

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 15, 2005, at 2:41 PM, DrDOS wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:54:34PM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> I think a flag is a muuuuch cleaner way to do this.  What's wrong  
>>> with
>>> -stderr?
>>
>> nothing but the fact that this does not work on windows.

Right, I was a bit too quick to speak.  But mostly I was concerned  
about adding some platform-specific oddness.  A hack to get -stderr  
working on Windows would be ideal.  One option might be to use the  
System Event Log in windows, but it would probably be a pain to use.

>> either an application is a true windows application, then stderr will  
>> go
>> into nirvana; or the application is a "DOS"-application, then it will
>> have this annoying DOS-box that confuses most people.
>> you cannot have an application that decides at runtime to which group  
>> it
>> belongs.
>
> i think it might be possible to have both, at least if you compile  
> with mingw, and add the -mwindows flag during linking (and the  
> -mms-bitfields is it, flag to gcc so that its binary compatible with  
> MSVC) . then it will not pop up a DOS window, but if you start from  
> cmd.exe, you will see the -stderr stuff..

Sounds great if it works.  On that note, I've tried in the past to get  
the MinGW compilation working and I didn't have much luck.  I started  
documenting the process here: http://puredata.org/docs/developer/mingw   
it would be awesome if you could complete it.  I'd like to be able to  
compile Pd-extended builds and auto-building for Windows too and I  
really don't want to have to learn MSVS.

>> (although i am fully with you, that it would be far more elegant)
>
> how about contextual errors (balloon popups over the spot where the  
> error or print occured)..

That would be quite nice, but a little more difficult to code...

.hc

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