Hey,
So I just discovered that on Windows and GNU/Linux, [pix_movie] has a 4th outlet while on Mac OS X is does not. This 4th outlet isn't documented as far as I can see, and the pix_movie source is not easy to navigate, with so many different files for the same object (pix_movieDS, pix_movieNEW, etc).
I am trying to figure out what it is so I can update the help patch. On Windows, I was getting a list of 5 floats.
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Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey,
I am trying to figure out what it is so I can update the help patch.
it's the 2nd outlet of [pix_texture]. i am not sure whether it should be documented unless it is really cross-platform (so people can rely on its existence)
fgmdfa IOhannes
On Sep 27, 2008, at 4:20 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey,
I am trying to figure out what it is so I can update the help patch.
it's the 2nd outlet of [pix_texture]. i am not sure whether it should be documented unless it is really cross-platform (so people can rely on its existence)
fgmdfa IOhannes
If it is there, it should be documented, including the fact that it is not cross-platform. If it shouldn't be used then it should be documented as such. There are already many platform-specific things that are documented, thankfully.
I checked in an updated help patch, hope there is no objections.
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Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
If it is there, it should be documented, including the fact that it is not cross-platform.
the fact that it is not cross-platform is a bug. i don't see a reason to document a bug in the reference-file. (this is what we have the bug-tracker for; btw, feel free to commit this)
If it shouldn't be used then it should be documented as such.
why?
There are already many platform-specific things that are documented, thankfully.
they should be documented but not in the reference patches for an object.
fmgadsr IOhannes
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