[PD] no more Nan display in Pd, why?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

howdy, I see you fixed the atom box in the repo, great! But I'd like to
remind you about the same kind of issue still remaining with [nbx].

The number2 GUI ("nbx") has the same bug of not displaying "nan" - where it
used to before (so it's a bug again). But while with the atom box we could
still print "nan" from its output, the issue with number box is that it
outputs the last value, so it's a bit more complicated than just having it
displaying it.

I know I said things about "inf" and number box, but I see I was missing
some stuff, I'll start a new thread about it.

cheers

2016-05-17 14:00 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> cool
>
> one other thing
>
> inf is still output without any issue, an atom box will "print" and output
> "inf" and you can click on it and change it back to a number and keep
> scrolling numbers with it.
>
> now, if an atom number box receives a 'nan', it freezes on that number...
> so it's confusing, you can't keep scrolling it, you have to know it was a
> 'nan' and click on it and change it back to a number. So it's only like it
> is not displaying 'nan', but still behaves so...
>
> By the way, the number atom box still outputs "nan" and you can check it
> with a [print] object.
>
> So yeah, it looks like a bug :)
>
> but a bug in the atom number box...
>
> *And now about the "number2" GUI:*
>
> it also does not print "nan" as it used to... but differently than the
> atom box, it *doesn't* output "nan", it outputs again the last number...
> so you can keep scrolling with it...
>
> Now, about number2 and "inf".
>
> It does not print "inf", it does print '1e+37'... and it doesn't output
> anything, if you try and print something from its output, nothing comes
> by...
>
> this is an old behaviour and i consider it a bug! It should behave in the
> same way as the atom number box
>
> cheers
>
> 2016-05-17 13:34 GMT-03:00 Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>:
>
>> Hmm... something seems horribly wrong... I'll find some time tomight to
>> look
>> closer.
>>
>> thanks
>> M
>>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 01:13:37PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>> > Howdy, the newer versions of Pd filter out "Nan" in number/atom boxes,
>> > right? Pd-Extended 0.42 and Pd-L2ork still output 'nan' in atom boxes,
>> > btw...
>> >
>> > Anyway, why is that? If 'nan' were not allowed in general in Pd, that'd
>> > make sense, but it's only in atom/number boxes, 'nan'is still output and
>> > can be printed...
>> >
>> > one thing i dont like about this is that the display will output the
>> last
>> > value instead of an error or a 'nan' output, even though 'nan' is still
>> > output.
>> >
>> > check patch attached
>> >
>> > cheers
>>
>>
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