[PD] flags generating errors (I think)

[Miller Puckette]

Sure enough... I'd better fix that...

thanks
Miller

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:26:54PM +0000, Matthew Cole wrote:
> Thanks for that fix - deleting the 'flags' entry worked.
> 
> As I deleted 'flags', I'm not sure exactly what I had.  But after a 
> little play, any of  '-audiodev',  '-audioindev' and '-audiooutdev', 
> without following arguments, cause it to crash/not start up.
> 
> A bit of a daft error on my part I'm afraid.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >... and now that I just tested it I can't get Pd to fail to come up,
> >even if I give it 'bad' startup args.  I tried asking for 1000000
> >audio channels and tried with a nonexistent flag, and it always at
> >least comes up.  So I'm curious what you had in your registry (I
> >think it would be "flags" but perhaps it's something else) that made
> >it fail?
> >
> >M
> >
> >On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:28:54AM -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>This looks like a serious problem... if the flags stored in the registry
> >>aren't syntactic Pd exits (I guess it should skip them and start up 
> >>anyway)
> >>
> >>Until I can get this fixed, you can work around this using regedit.  Open
> >>the "run" dialog from teh "start" menu and type in "regedit" to start
> >>it.  Then browse (within regedit) into 
> >>"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" -> "SOFTWARE" -> "Pd"
> >>and delete the "flags" entry.  If you want to you can just delete the 
> >>whole
> >>"pd" folder and start over.
> >>
> >>cheers
> >>Miller
> >>
> >>I was using pd 0.39, on a win2000 os, and I specified some start-up
> >>flags via the gui/dialogue box.  When I closed down pd and restarted 
> >>it
> >>again, it caused an error: 'pd.exe has generated errors and will be
> >>closed by Windows...'  I don't know how to start pd again, I don't 
> >>have
> >>a batch file with the start-up flags to modify.<br>
> >><br>
> >>I then tried to use an older version of pd, 0.37 (downloaded after the
> >>above mess-up).&nbsp; That version ran but I couldn't use ASIO settings, 
> >>it
> >>generated this: "Error number -9997 occured opening portaudio stream&nbsp;
> >>Error message: Invalid device ID"<br>
> >><br>
> >>I entered a number of flags (in one go before the crash I can't
> >>remember them all but they included: -asio -listdev -audiodev.<br>
> >><br>
> >>All suggestions of remedies, or explanations of what has gone wrong,
> >>gratefully received.<br>
> >>
> >>
> >>On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:58:08PM +0000, Matthew Cole wrote:
> >>
> >>   
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