[PD] Ability to access error messages from patch

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

On 6/14/21 3:33 PM, Christof Ressi wrote:
> 
> Here's another idea, which I don't really love, but which I would prefer 
> over your proposed [canvaserror]:
> 
> Method calls which can generate an error send the error code to a global 
> [errno] object and the user can query the current error state with a 
> bang. This would be similar to 'errno' in C.


but which error-code?
i mean, there currently is no such thing and if you want to use it you 
have to hope for the object author to implement it.

the nice thing about the [patcherror] object is that no changes would be 
required to whatever objects (apart from the patch that uses it, 
obviously; but that's true for all solutions).

i also like the possibility, to suppress error printout (e.g. when 
opening an *optional* configuration file).

and: it would allow us to catch *multiple* errors (e.g. if an object 
emitted two errors in a row, without stopping to send something to the 
outlet so we can query the errno).
as well as being able to catch errors that are not triggered by a 
message directly (think: delayed opening of a file; either because this 
happens only when dsp is turned on, or even in a separate thread).


gamdrs
IOhannes


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