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

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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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com