hi MIchi,

michael@algo.mur.at wrote:

hello this reMI speaking ....
i have installed alsa, jack and pd under gentoo with the rme hdsp card ......
everthing seems to function, only one problem that i get the error

If this is the biggest problem, I am impressed! ;-)

bad screen distance "pdtk_pd_dio"
invalid command name "number"

Is it a fatal error? Does it crash the patch?

Or is it just annoying?

But seriously: I get 'bad screen distance' errors sometimes when using complex patches that are all on one window, and I try to send something [sometimes to a table] from the bottom of the screen to the top. The order of operations gets confused [top-to-bottom, left-to-right...oh sh*t, is that correct, or is it right-to-left?] and gives you 'bad screen distance'.

I know screen position really *shouldn't* matter, but if you look at the text version of your patch, you will see why: a function earlier in the patch is waiting for a function later in the patch. [Can any of you C gurus confirm or deny this?]

Try reordering your objects and subpatches in the window and see if that helps.

best, D.