Bugs item #3224807, was opened at 2011-03-19 04:18 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nobody You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=507079&aid=3224807...
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Pixes (pix_ objects) Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Gem tries to print Str63 and/or Str255 as if they were ordin
Initial Comment: pix film will not take $1 variable or %s variable to open mov file
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2011-03-19 04:23
Message: I first thought that there might be a bug with printing the error message, because I found that Gem has one or more similar bugs. Inside of the source code of [pix_filmDarwin] the error message above is printed by this command :
error("unable to find file: %#s", theFSSpec.name);
But when looking at the programming manual of MacOSX 10.4 for what %#s means, it says that %#s has no meaning ("#" would mean nothing when used together with "s").
So, I don't know what %#s is supposed to be doing there, and whether it means that theFSSpec.name is printed in the console in the wrong way or what.
I know that in some places, Gem does (or used to do) :
error("blahblah: %s", name);
instead of :
error("blahblah: %*s", *name, name+1);
and that it caused weird stuff to appear in the console when I got those errors, but it's normally a lot less garbled than what you've got : I could really see the filename, prefixed by one unwanted character, and suffixed by possibly a bunch of unwanted characters.
However, when I look at what theFSSpec.name is supposed to be in the error message, it looks like it's part of the same problem.
— copied from matju's mail on pd-list
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