[PD] [text] issue reading SysEx files

[Mario Buoninfante]

Hi Miller,

Thanks for the clarification. Having soundfiler able to read binary files would be great. In fact at the end of the day, I was trying to replace the external [binfile] that does exactly that.

Cheers,
Mario

Sent from my WIKO U PULSE LITEOn 20 Jan 2019 23:34, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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