[PD] verbose object search paths not displaying unless debug4?

[Miller Puckette]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 07:27:59PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 1/24/23 17:36, Peter P. wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I am trying to trace the non-loading of an external, iemguts in my case.
> > I enabled verbose messages either in the "Path" preferences or by the command
> > line flag. Nevertheless the familiar dump of all the places that are
> > being searched is not displayed unless I enable verbose mode 4. Is this
> > intentional and has this behavior been modified recently?
> 
> i guess it was part of the logpost-refactoring:
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1389
> 
> iirc, the outcome is that with "-verbose" you get an extra level of
> verbosity beyond "debug"¹
> 
> to be honest, i think that it's not asking too much to add both "-verbose"
> on the cmdline *and* raise the log-level in the GUI.
> (but then: i typically have set my log-level to "4" anyhow)
> 
> gfmdsar
> IOhannes
> 
> 
> 
> ¹ well not only; there's still the possibility to output at an "error" level
> if and only if "-verbose" was given. but the general idea is what i wrote
> above.

actually, would it work to set the verbose level of -verbose output to
normal?  Since you've already set the verbose flag anyway, I think all
such output ala "if (pd_verbose) ..." should then not be filtered by the
GUI verbose setting.

(I also got bitten by this at least once in the past :)

M

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