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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
