Creating obj's autostyle shakes things up. I will investigate further, but here is my <o8vious beginngng>. "clear ; " or " clear " is often involved when crashes happens. crash.pd

#N canvas 327 166 715 324 12; #X msg 195 87 ; pd-crash.pd clear; #X msg 66 100 clear; #X obj 66 130 s pd-crash.pd; #X msg 195 127 ; pd-crash.pd clear ;; #X text 127 51 crash; #X obj 71 250 s pd-crash.pd; #X msg 71 220 clear ;; #X text 195 225 <-no crash the first time created , and the patch was cleared. But after that........; #X connect 1 0 2 0;

#X connect 6 0 5 0;

At 04:38 17-10-2006, Miller Puckett wrote:

Just that I think there's at least one outstanding bug that causes Pd to crash on XP, that doesn't have anything to do with data structures, and which pops up mysteriously in the middle of sessions. I got one such crash but went back and repeated just what I had done before and could never reproduce it...

cheers Miller

juhu I think i found the problem!

Some of the tutorial patches has \; or even \; int he source. It is posibble to load the patches, but eventually a crash wil occur. Maybe you have to load a couple of p's..do some editing, as usual.

Ok I'm of the debug for now, need to shake my body.

Hope it helps

med venlig hilsen Steffen

This python script can/might be helpfull for search and replace.

regexp.py

# regexplace: regular expression search and replace # Stefano Spinucci # 2006-02-07 (rev 4)

# thanks to roadrunner.py # http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52553 # for some ideas and some code

# tested with python 2.3.5

import sys, os, re, string

# pupulate and return 'fileslist[]' with all files inside 'dir' matching 'regx' def make_files_list(dir, regx):

 # if dir is not a directory, exit with error
 if not os.path.isdir(dir):
     sys.exit(dir + ' is not a valid dir to walk !!!')

 # compile the search regexp
 cregex=re.compile(regx)

 # initialize the file list
 fileslist = []

 # loop on all files and select files matching 'regx'
 for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir):
     for name in files:
         if cregex.search(name):
             path = os.path.join(root, name)
             fileslist.append(path)

 # return the file list
 return fileslist[:]

# in all files in 'fileslist' search the regexp 'searchregx' and replace # with 'replacestring'; real substitution in files only if 'simulation' = 0; # real substitution may also be step by step (if 'stepbystep' = 1) def replace_in_files(fileslist, searchregx, replacestring, simulation, stepbystep):

 # compile regexp
 cregex=re.compile(searchregx)

 # print message to the user
 if simulation == 1:
     print '\nReplaced (simulation):\n'
 else:
     print '\nReplaced:\n'

 # loop on all files
 for xfile in fileslist:

     # initialize the replace flag
     replaceflag=0

     # open file for read
     readlines=open(xfile,'r').readlines()
     # intialize the list counter
     listindex = -1

     # search and replace in current file printing to the user 

changed lines for currentline in readlines:

         # increment the list counter
         listindex = listindex + 1

         # if the regexp is found
         if cregex.search(currentline):

             # make the substitution
             f=re.sub(searchregx,replacestring,currentline)

             # print the current filename, the old string and the 

new string print '\n' + xfile print '- ' + currentline , if currentline[-1:]!='\n': print '\n' , print '+ ' + f , if f[-1:]!='\n': print '\n' ,

             # if substitution is real
             if simulation == 0:

                 # if substitution is step by step
                 if stepbystep == 1:

                     # ask user if the current line must be replaced
                     question = raw_input('write(Y), skip (n), 

quit (q) ? ') question = string.lower(question)

                     # if quit
                     if question=='q':
                         sys.exit('\ninterrupted by the user !!!')

                     # if skip
                     elif question=='n':
                         pass

                     # if write
                     else:

                         # update the whole file variable ('readlines')
                         readlines[listindex] = f
                         replaceflag=1

                 # if substitution is not step by step
                 else:

                         # update the whole file variable ('readlines')
                         readlines[listindex] = f
                         replaceflag=1

     # if some text was replaced
     # overwrite the original file
     if replaceflag==1:

         # open the file for writting
         write_file=open(xfile,'w')

         # overwrite the file
         for line in readlines:
             write_file.write(line)

         # close the file
         write_file.close()

# main function def main():

 # if parameters are wrong, exit with error
 if len(sys.argv) < 5:

     print '\nUsage:'
     print 'python regexplace.py dirname files-regexp 

search-regexp replace-string'

     sys.exit(1)

 # ask user for simulated execution or real substitution
 print '\nyou are replacing %s with %s in %s' %(sys.argv[3], 

sys.argv[4], sys.argv[2]) question1 = raw_input('continue with real substitution (y/N) ? ') question1 = string.lower(question1)

 # if user selected real substitution, ask user if execution must 

be step by step if question1=='y': question2 = raw_input('\nsubstitute step by step (Y/n) ? ') question2 = string.lower(question2)

 # make the file list
 fileslist = make_files_list(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])

 # if real substitution
 if question1=='y':

     # if step by step
     if question2!='n':
         replace_in_files(fileslist, sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4], 0, 1)

     # if not step by step
     else:
         replace_in_files(fileslist, sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4], 0, 

0. # if simulated execution else: replace_in_files(fileslist, sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4], 1, 0)

if __name__ == '__main__': main()