Starting Pd like this "$ LANG=C pd" didn't solve the error, the plugin~-help file was still white. But changing these settings did solve the problem: in ubuntu studio/Settings manager > Language support > Regional Formats : display numbers, dates and currency in the usual format for: English (UK)
and next restart the computer. My previous setting for displaying numbers was "Deutsch" I'm glad that the problem is solved, thanks for the suggestion!
Hans On 03/08/2017 03:51 PM, zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
On 03/08/2017 03:34 PM, Hans Roels wrote:
Hello,
When I try to open the plugin~-help file from the Pd browser, the whole window is white and all objects in the file are invisible. This is the error message:
(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: bad screen distance "-75,000000" while executing "$tkcanvas create text $x $y -tags $tags -text $text -fill $color -anchor nw -font [get_font_for_size $font_size]" (procedure "pdtk_text_new" line 2) invoked from within "pdtk_text_new .xe88180.c {.xe88180.tf3b1d0 msg text} -75,000000 538,000000 {pddp} 10 black" ("uplevel" body line 4) invoked from within "uplevel #0 $docmds"(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: bad screen distance "86,000000"
this looks like a problem with locales. i guess you are using Pd in a Belgian (or similar) locale, and when creating a [plugin~] object (done by the help-patch), tcl suddenly starts formatting floating-point values with "," as the decimal mark rather than ".", breaking everything. i remember similar things when working on [pdgst].
try forcing the locale of Pd to "C", with something like:
$ LANG=C pd
Is this perhaps related to the screen resolution of my laptop?
i don't think so.
fsa,rd IOhannes
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