On 03/08/2017 03:34 PM, Hans Roels wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I try to open the plugin~-help file from the Pd browser, the whole
> window is white and all objects in the file are invisible. This is the
> error message:
>
> (Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: bad screen distance "-75,000000"
> while executing
> "$tkcanvas create text $x $y -tags $tags -text $text -fill $color
> -anchor nw -font [get_font_for_size $font_size]"
> (procedure "pdtk_text_new" line 2)
> invoked from within
> "pdtk_text_new .xe88180.c {.xe88180.tf3b1d0 msg text} -75,000000
> 538,000000 {pddp} 10 black"
> ("uplevel" body line 4)
> invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 $docmds"(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: bad screen distance "86,000000"this looks like a problem with locales. i guess you are using Pd in a Belgian (or similar) locale, and when creating a [plugin~] object (done by the help-patch), tcl suddenly starts formatting floating-point values with "," as the decimal mark rather than ".", breaking everything. i remember similar things when working on [pdgst]. try forcing the locale of Pd to "C", with something like: $ LANG=C pd > > Is this perhaps related to the screen resolution of my laptop? i don't think so. fsa,rd IOhannes
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