On May 26, 2020, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
To Pd dev -
I'm trying to get out s 'bugfix' release 0.50-3 containing networking updates and the new code-signing step fro the latest MacOS.
I agree with IOhannes as this is definitely not a bug fix release any more. It's basically 0.51 and many of the help file updates also reflect that.
But meanwhile I can't seem to get Pd to read preferences on a macintosh any more. This is the first time I've tested using the new preferences interface for Mac, commit cc64c629a (Nov 20 2019, so newer than Pd 0.50-2).
It looks like this line:
const char *s = CFStringGetCStringPtr((CFStringRef)v, kCFStringEncodingUTF8);is always returning null.
It seems that, in certain situations, CFStringGetCStringPtr returns NULL even if the string is valid:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9166291/converting-a-cfstringref-to-char https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9166291/converting-a-cfstringref-to-char
I did not see that in my testing but it could be a different strings settings you are reading as compared to mine and/or slightly different behavior between OS versions.
I can look into this later tonight.
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