Bugs item #3012451, was opened at 2010-06-07 05:11 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=3012451...

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Category: pd-extended Group: v0.42 Status: Pending Resolution: Fixed

Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)

Assigned to: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)

Summary: plugin~ help patch needs replacement

Initial Comment: We have known for years that the plugin~ help patch can crash Pd if the requested LADSPA plugins are not present on the user's system. The issue has been addressed on the mailing list dozens of times, and a corrected help patch posted years ago by Frank Barknecht, however it has not been updated. As a final attempt, I post it here in the hopes that someone will take a few minutes to deal with this finally.

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)

Date: 2010-06-14 14:22

Message: I committed some kind of version of this help patch.

http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data?view=rev&revision=...

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Comment By: IOhannes m zmlnig (zmoelnig) Date: 2010-06-07 08:02

Message: hmm, i tried both this help-patch and the one that comes with PdX-0.42rc1.

both crash.

therefore: - the attached patch doesn't fix any problem, since the crash can be triggered by the user at any time (the bug is in [plugin~] not in any help-patch) - the attached patch doesn't fix the symptoms either

anyhow, thanks for the report

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