[PD] Lua and PD : couldn't create

Jack jack at rybn.org
Mon Jul 21 17:52:47 CEST 2008


Le 21 juil. 08 à 17:44, IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :

> Jack wrote:
>> Hello Claude,
>> I have installed today lua with Pd on MacOSX.4.11 and all is OK  
>> (I  just change 'wget' to 'curl -O' in the 'Makefile.static'  
>> because i  use curl).
>> The patch 'lua-help.pd' works fine, when I click on the message  
>> [load  hello.lua(, i get from the console : 'Hello, you!'.
>> The object [hello] works fine : when i put it in a new patch i  
>> get :  'Hello, world!' and when i close the patch or remove this  
>> object i  get : 'Bye bye, world!'.
>> Now my problem :
>> i have duplicated the file 'hello.pd_lua' in the 'lua' folder and   
>> renamed it 'testjack.pd_lua'.
>> Now, when i restart Pd and create a new patch and put a new  
>> object  [testjack], after 10 seconds Pd output :
>> error: maximum object loading depth 1000 reached
>>   testjack
>> ... couldn't create
>> Any idea about this problem.
>> Thanx.
>
> the 1000 iterations (resulting in the 10secs wait) originate from a  
> patch of mine; if it wasn't there, you would get an immediate  
> failure of "couldn't create".
>
> the obvious question is: did you load pdlua?
> more questions are:
> did you try "hello-help"?
> did pdlua register the sys_loader for lua?
> did you modify your testjack.pd_lua in order to register the class  
> "testjack" rather than the class "hello"?
Yes, this was my error, thanx Iohannes for all the possibility !
++

Jack


> what happens when running with "-verbose"?
>
>
> finally: the lua-help.pd does not use the hello.pd_lua at all, but  
> rather hello.lua which is a completely different file (though the  
> name is similar)
>
> fgm,asdr
> IOhannes





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