Hi
I was just discussing a feature request to an external (aoo) for posting error messages to the outlet instead of the Pd console.
It reminded me that I often found error posts on the console limiting because they make the error condition inaccessible for the patch. Often there is no way to deal with a certain error condition on a patch level.
Many programming languages provide an infrastructure to deal with error conditions in flexible ways. Pd not so much. OTOH, Pd considered being a rather higher level language, many people might do not expect such flexibility and are happy with clear errors in the console without having to hook up [print]s to all kinds of status outlets.
Now, what if the (error) messages printed to the console could be made accessible to the patch? This wouldn't affect convenience of current error post practice, but could allow for dealing with error conditions within the patch. I do not have a clear picture of how exactly this could be designed, but then I wonder if people think whether this is an intelligent idea at all, before I open a feature request. Or maybe an existing external already does that?
Roman