[patches:#564] silence "signal out to non-signal in" error when it makes no sense

Status: open
Group: bugfix
Labels: puredata
Created: Mon Nov 02, 2015 07:51 PM UTC by IOhannes m zmölnig
Last Updated: Mon Nov 02, 2015 07:51 PM UTC
Owner: Miller Puckette
Attachments:

0001-silence-DSP-error-when-autopatching.patch (1.6 kB; text/x-diff)

Pd throws a (searchable) error whenever it encounters an illegal connection between a signal outlet and a non-signal inlet. great!

however, there are two use-cases where the error-message is not helpful and instead clutters the Pd-console with needless chitchat:

when the destination object did not create for whatever reasons (which already gave us an "object not found" error)
when we use the auto-patching feature (with DSP on), the error will be triggered everytime we create (Ctrl-1) a new object starting from a signal-object (regardless which object we actually create - as the error is thrown when the empty object box is created). this is especially annoying when doing live-coding.

luckily for us, the two use-cases can be fixed with a single bugfix (in a single line!), that just checks whether the destination object is a non-instantiated object (of text_class), in which case the error printout should be suppressed.

the attached patch (against current git HEAD) fixes the issue.

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