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If I didn't wait even 45 minutes (nor even 5 probably) after reporting the bug before I wrote to the ml, it was not for impatience but just because the

oh sorry, i was not aware of that. to me it seemed that between your posting to the tracker and to the ml a timespan of 4 hours elapsed.

Hey I'm really sorry about that. What I meant was that I didn't remember at all how much time had elapsed between the bug report and the post to the ml and that I sent the two with two different purposes; I'm sure you're right about the timings. I thought you were complaining about my writing to the mailing list too soon (while you were complaining about almost the opposite) and I tried to explain it was not out of impatience. Surely I hadn't received (read, to be more precise) the automatic notification of the bug tracker, since (I now realise) my email address in the bugtracker is out of date, so I read that one much later; and I didn't check out the tracker before I posted the mail for the reasons I already mentioned (and also because I thought I would receive a notice via email in case anyone replied).

So, with the hope to close this thread (or at least the non-technical discussion), I really apologize if I offended anyone.

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Correct me if I'm wrong: I need to recompile PD after modifying the source code with the patch, right?

wrong. you just need to edit the pd.tk file ... the only thing you have to do is restart pd...

Ok that'g great! Forgive my ignorance. I will try it out as soon as I can. And of course I'll let you know whether it works

change the 2 occurences of "-%D/abs(%D)" to "(%D>0)?:-1:1

Sounds like it will certainly work.

it is very simple: download the patch and......

Thanks for the explanation.

Bye m.