[PD] [text] issue reading SysEx files

[Miller Puckette]

The trouble is probably the presence of a '{' character in the file.
But there will be other problems - ASCII NULL characters will simply
terminate the string early, and semicolons, spaces, and commas will
confuse things.

Somewhere on my long do-list is an idea to make an addition to soundfiler
to read binary chanracters into an array.

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 04:39:04PM +0000, Mario Buoninfante wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to read SysEx files using [text], and I noticed that the
> loaded file end up being corrupted in a way with bits and bops missing.
> Also trying to manually copy and paste part of the file (from Atom text
> editor) I'm not able to copy the entire file, there's always something
> missing (ie select all the file in Atom, copy and paste in [text]).
> When loading the file I've got no error, but then when I open the [text]
> window, this is returned on the console:
> 
> (Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: extra characters after close-brace
>     while executing
> "pdtk_textwindow_append .x100617310 {d 0 iM @?, f h I R kQ, [ ???? ), Y Q Y1
> -" ( , XFN `  8 ) 6{` )  ) ;
> }
> pdtk_textwindow_append .x1006173..."
>     ("uplevel" body line 39)
>     invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 $docmds
> 
> I know, it's a kind of a weird thing trying to read SysEx files in this way
> and probably it's just me trying to do something with the wrong tool.
> But weirdly enough the sequences of characters I cannot copy and paste from
> Atom, can then be directly typed in the [text] window.
> I suspect this has to do with the character encoding.
> Does anyone know why [text] behave this way?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario

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