Re: [sc-users] Record OSC

[marcello.lussana@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thank you for your explanation.
I cannot really find where the extension try to force the float datatype
though, do you know which function/method is supposed to do that?


On 10.12.19 15:09, jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 7:39 PM <marcello.lussana@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:marcello.lussana@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     hi all,
> 
>     I am looking for a way to record and playback OSC messages.
> 
>     I found a an extension on git that does exactly that:
>     https://github.com/sensestage/SC-OSCFileLog
>     Running the example in the help file, unfortunately I get an error (see
>     below) when I try to play back the recorded file, I guess it might be a
>     SC version problem, as this extension is 5 years old.
> 
>     Are there any other known way to record and playback OSC messages?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Marcello
> 
>     ==================
> 
>     ERROR: Command line parse failed
>     ERROR: syntax error, unexpected INTEGER, expecting NAME or WHILE or '['
>     or '('
>       in interpreted text
>       line 1 char 5:
> 
>       0.0.0
>           ^
> 
> 
> SC changed so that floating-point numbers whose fraction is 0 (e.g. 1.0,
> 2.0 etc.) now always print with .0 at the end. Before, .0 was omitted.
> 
> It looks like this extension is forcing a certain datatype to be always
> float in the text representation, without checking whether the decimal
> point is actually missing.
> 
> That's an annoyance (and developers are aware that this change, though
> made for a good reason, did end up breaking code) -- but it's also
> because of fragile code design in the extension. That is, it's correct
> to add .0 if a float renders as e.g. "300" (no decimal point) -- but the
> logic in the code currently doesn't check for a decimal point -- it says
> "if the fraction is zero, then there is no decimal point, so we have to
> add one." So the extension should be updated either to remove the check
> (which is not necessary anymore) or to use a simpler condition.
> 
> hjh


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