Re: Buffer-accessing units fail silently; maybe less silent?

> Hi -
>
>> From the PlayBuf helpfile: "warning: if you supply a bufnum of a
> buffer that has a different numChannels then you have specified to the
> PlayBuf, it will fail silently."
>
> Why silently? Wouldn't it be more helpful to warn?
>
> Here's a patch that adds a warning (to the macros used by PlayBuf,
> BufRd, RecordBuf, BufWr, ScopeOut). Warning can be suppressed using
> server verbosity flag. Thoughts?
>
> Dan
>
>
> Index: /Users/danstowell/SuperCollider3/source/plugins/DelayUGens.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- /Users/danstowell/SuperCollider3/source/plugins/DelayUGens.cpp
> (revision 7343)
> +++ /Users/danstowell/SuperCollider3/source/plugins/DelayUGens.cpp
> (working copy)
> @@ -609,6 +609,9 @@
> #define SETUP_OUT \
>        uint32 numOutputs = unit->mNumOutputs; \
>        if (numOutputs > bufChannels) { \
> +               if(unit->mWorld->mVerbosity > -1 && !unit->mDone){ \
> +                       Print("buffer-reading unit channel mismatch:
> numOutputs %i, buf has %i channels\n", numOutputs, bufChannels); \
> +               } \
>                 unit->mDone = true; \
>                ClearUnitOutputs(unit, inNumSamples); \
>                return; \
> @@ -619,6 +622,9 @@
> #define SETUP_IN(offset) \
>        uint32 numInputs = unit->mNumInputs - (uint32)offset; \
>        if (numInputs != bufChannels) { \
> +               if(unit->mWorld->mVerbosity > -1 && !unit->mDone){ \
> +                       Print("buffer-writing unit channel mismatch:
> numInputs %i, buf has %i channels\n", numInputs, bufChannels); \
> +               } \
>                 unit->mDone = true; \
>                ClearUnitOutputs(unit, inNumSamples); \
>                return; \
> <
> WarnChannelMismatch
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