Hi, dear list !
I'm growing slightly desperate as i recently encountered a weird bug in PD 0.55-2 on a LUUNTU 24 system that i can't seem to track down no matter what i try.
Here's the outline:
After a while of working on a patch, without any reason or reproducable scenario, PD starts to save patches converting commas to colons. Re-opening such a "wrong formatted" patch of course produces a lot of errors, f.e. in message boxes that i use for loadbang stuff.
So, something like:
[; foo 0.0345; bar 4.567; me 0.001;(
becomes just
[; foo 0(
omitting all the rest of the message
And i get an error in the console: canvas: no method for 'float'
Repairing such patches of course is a long and cumbersome drag (because it's not immediately noticeable when this bug starts to kick in, only on patch re-opening).
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My patch is very big and involved (has lots of abstractions), so i won't post it here.
First i thought it had something to do with an abstraction that used data structures quite heavily, which occasionally threw some errors. But i already removed that part from my patch. I am using a lot of "write" and "read" stuff in my patch (mostly [text]s, but also .fxp/.vstpreset files with [vstplugin~]. I can't seem to find any weird stuff going on in my patch that could lead to this bug.
I have never experienced this before and i am beginning to think that either my computer or my system is messed up. But just before i throw it out of the window: Has anyone any idea what's going on here ? Or experienced something similar to this ?
Best
Oliver