On Mon, 2021-06-14 at 10:37 +0200, Peter P. wrote:
> * Roman Haefeli <[email protected]> [2021-06-14 10:24]:
> [...]
> > I am wondering about that, too. Maybe a [pderror] would be canvas-
> > local 
> > and only report errors from objects belonging to the local canvas?
> > And
> > it would prepend the name of the object to the message?
> Yes, that's a good idea, but what if there are two identical objects
> on
> the same canvas?
> 
> > 'text /tmp/foo.txt: can't open'
> > 'text /tmp/foo.txt: read failed'
> I think this could be solved with an extra outlet to [textfile],
> [soundfiler], [readsf~] and similar objects without going through the
> hassle of inventing a completely parsable error-message object.

Totally. I even would much prefer extra info directly from the object
itself. However, I assumed such a change to so many objects is not
realistically going to happen. A console parser would work even for
externals that do not implement messages through outlets.

Roman

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