Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-14 Thread patko
hey, thank you for the brain touch, - Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca a écrit : On Thu, 13 May 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Or maybe: binbuf_gettext(bb, buf, bufsize); strncat(buf, \0, strlen(buf)-bufsize); this is appending extra characters when [print]

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-14 Thread patko
- patko colet.patr...@free.fr a écrit : - Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca a écrit : buf = resizebytes(buf, bufsize+1, bufsize); (I hope I didn't make any mistake there... but looks ok to me now). No mistakes, that's alright with my OS. oupse, I didn't pay

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-14 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Fri, 14 May 2010, patko wrote: hey, thank you for the brain touch, excuse me : the WHAT ? this is appending extra characters when [print] argument has more than seven characters. eg: match: bang NO_matchmÇ : 234 Well, I hope you understand that this can happen with ANY number of

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-14 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Fri, 14 May 2010, patko wrote: but in both cases it doesn't crash anymore. AND i wanted to say that it's also luck that it doesn't crash anymore. It would be more instructive and helpful if a programme would crash every time that the code does something wrong, but alas, this is not the

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On May 14, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010, patko wrote: but in both cases it doesn't crash anymore. AND i wanted to say that it's also luck that it doesn't crash anymore. It would be more instructive and helpful if a programme would crash every time

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-14 Thread patko
- Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca a écrit : On Fri, 14 May 2010, patko wrote: hey, thank you for the brain touch, excuse me : the WHAT ? I'm just enjoying to have people that share braincells on this topic, because I wouldn't find it by myself.

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-14 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: buf = resizebytes(buf, bufsize+1, bufsize); indeed, oldsize comes before, not after, so, buf = resizebytes(buf, bufsize, bufsize+1); as Hans said. _ _ __ ___ _ _ _ ... | Mathieu Bouchard,

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On May 12, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010, patko wrote: Maybe opening a new topic with [print] crashes pd would make it. the problem is exactly there: x_interface.c:28 buf[bufsize] = 0; remove or comment this line, then it won't crash anymore. I've no clue what

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On May 12, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2010, patko wrote: Maybe opening a new topic with [print] crashes pd would make it. the problem is exactly there: x_interface.c:28 buf[bufsize] = 0; remove or comment this line, then it won't crash anymore. I've no clue what

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-13 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On May 12, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Instead of removing the line, try prepending it with : buf = resizebytes(buf, bufsize+1, bufsize); (I hope I didn't make any mistake there... but looks ok to me now). Shouldn't this work

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-13 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Or maybe: binbuf_gettext(bb, buf, bufsize); strncat(buf, \0, strlen(buf)-bufsize); strncat will copy at most strlen(buf)-bufsize, but it will also copy at most strlen(\0) bytes, and strlen(\0) is zero, because strlen actually is

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-13 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Or maybe: binbuf_gettext(bb, buf, bufsize); strncat(buf, \0, strlen(buf)-bufsize); strncat will copy at most strlen(buf)-bufsize, but it will also copy at most strlen(\0) bytes, and

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-12 Thread patko
I'm afraid the print source will stay like this unless someone that knows very well c code explain what's happening, I gave all the keys but without a dev to end the work, there is nothing else to do. And I think this is stupid to just 'avoid' to put more than seven characters in print

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-12 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 12 May 2010, patko wrote: Maybe opening a new topic with [print] crashes pd would make it. the problem is exactly there: x_interface.c:28 buf[bufsize] = 0; remove or comment this line, then it won't crash anymore. I've no clue what this line stand for. If you have no clue, then

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-12 Thread patko
- Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca a écrit : On Wed, 12 May 2010, patko wrote: the problem is exactly there: x_interface.c:28 buf[bufsize] = 0; This looks like it's a bug regardless of the OS, although it currently only shows up on some versions of Windows. What you suggest

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-11 Thread rene beekman
i made the suggested change to the [sel] help patch and now have confirmation on 2 out of 3 i've seen machines with these problems, that the modified patch no longer crashes pd. this is a wird problem that would have been extremely hard to find without your help. thanks! looking

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-10 Thread patko
My friend Dichotomie ( Binary search algorithm ) has helped me out to find out the problem with this patch. just replace print NO_match by print Nomatch it's seems there's a problem with stdout or something like this I'll try to pay attention to warnings during next compile unless someone

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-10 Thread patko
just replace print NO_match by print Nomatch in fact print doesn't support more than seven characters is argument symbol the bug is easy to reproduce: in a new patch create a [print ] object and close, it will crash, but under certain conditions, it doesn't crash with the version

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-10 Thread rene beekman
many thanks, i made the necessary changes to the select help patch and will be trying this modified patch in the coming days on several machines. will post updates when i have more. thanks again. rene On May 10, 2010, at 18:28, patko wrote: just replace print NO_match by print

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-09 Thread rene beekman
tested this tonight on one machine running win7. replacing the pd.dll in the pd/bin folder made pd unable to start On May 08, 2010, at 16:38, patko wrote: I've recently compiled a version of pd-extended just replacing pd.dll fixes it, it's attached - rene beekman r...@raakvlak.net

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-08 Thread patko
Hello - Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at a écrit : I'd like to get this stuff working on Windows 7 too, but I currently don't have access to a Windows 7 machine. Be sure to submit bug reports to the bug tracker, if you haven't already. Also, if you can I've tried last build

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-08 Thread rene beekman
now in the bugtracker, id 2998579 opening the help file for the [sel] object is one way to recreate this crash. but sel is not the only object the patch you sent in feb with the [multiselect] object removed from the related objects subpatch does not solve the problem. i do have (indirect,

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-07 Thread rene beekman
i reported this problem several months ago. the suggestion back then was to test nightly builds, which did not work at the time. more recent nightly builds did not solve this problem either. it appears on some laptops running vista or windows7, but not all. i have so far not been able to

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-05-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I'd like to get this stuff working on Windows 7 too, but I currently don't have access to a Windows 7 machine. Be sure to submit bug reports to the bug tracker, if you haven't already. Also, if you can narrow down the crash to as small a patch as possible, that makes it much easier to

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-02-15 Thread rene beekman
tried it with the nightly build from the 14th still crashed :( rene On Feb 14, 2010, at 19:23, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: 1) try a Pd-extended 0.42.5 nightly build 2) try this version with the [multiselect] object removed from the related objects subpatch select-help.pd .hc

Re: [PD] vista win7 support ?

2010-02-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
1) try a Pd-extended 0.42.5 nightly build 2) try this version with the [multiselect] object removed from the related objects subpatch select-help.pd Description: Binary data .hc On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:59 AM, rene beekman wrote: we're having problems running pd-extended 0.41.4 on