[PD] vista & win7 support ?

[rene beekman]

many thanks, i made the necessary changes to the select help patch and will be trying this modified patch in the coming days on several machines.
will post updates when i have more.

thanks again.

rene



On May 10, 2010, at 18:28, patko wrote:

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>> 
>> just replace "print NO_match" by "print Nomatch"
>> 
> 
> in fact print doesn't support more than seven characters is argument symbol
> 
> the bug is easy to reproduce:
> in a new patch create a [print aaaaaaaa]  object and close, it will crash,
> but under certain conditions, it doesn't crash with the version I often use,
> and I've no clue why, this bug is so tricky, 
> it looks like a windows memory restriction nightmare.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm certain the bug come from those lines from x_interface.c:
> 
>    if (argc)
>    {
>        t_binbuf *bb = binbuf_new();
>        binbuf_add(bb, argc, argv);
>        binbuf_gettext(bb, &buf, &bufsize);
>        buf[bufsize] = 0;
>        x->x_sym = gensym(buf);
>        binbuf_free(bb);
>    }
> 
> if you remove this the arg symbol won't crash pd.
> 
> it's just weird.
> 
> 
>