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** [patches:#567] prevent TCL-backtrace when using plugin-dispatch with an unknown receiver**

**Status:** open **Group:** bugfix **Labels:** pd-gui **Created:** Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:22 PM UTC by IOhannes m zmölnig **Last Updated:** Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:22 PM UTC **Owner:** Miller Puckette **Attachments:**

- [0001-check-whether-a-plugin-dispatcher-is-registered-for-.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/patches/567/attachment/0001-check-whethe...) (1.6 kB; text/x-diff)

there's a "plugin-dispatch" mechanism built into pd/pd-gui, that provides a uniform way to send messages from pd-core (e.g. an abstraction) to a pd-gui plugin.

unfortunately, the current implementation does not do any error checking, so if an abstraction assumes that a gui-plugin is installed (although it is not) and sends `[; pd plugin-dispatch foo(` (where *foo* is the receiver label of the gui plugin), then Pd will give a long and ugly **Tcl-Backtrace**, which is not very helpful to anybody.

the attached patch fixes this by silently ignoring `plugin-dispatch` messages to unknown receivers (assuming that it's easy on the patch/plugin level to establish a little ping/pong handshake between patch and gui-plugin to establish the proper initialization of both, and issue an error if this is not the case).

an alternative solution would be to replace the backtrace by a single error-line (though this does not allow for custom error messages :-()

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