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norns is many sound instruments.
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On device debug mode? #824

Closed okyeron closed 5 years ago

okyeron commented 5 years ago

In regards to duplicate engine errors (or similar SC problems)...

Is is possible to pipe SC errors to be displayed on the device screen?

Perhaps a "debug mode" that could be toggled on/off - Especially for situations where you don't have a computer and maiden handy?

catfact commented 5 years ago

in general, you need to be on a computer to fix SC errors anyway, and the output is verbose...

but the 'duplicate class' errors problem is common enough that it should be caught and handled...

(even in lua possible to catch most duplicate-class issues by checking for duplicate filenames? after update maybe?)

okyeron commented 5 years ago

even in lua possible to catch most duplicate-class issues by checking for duplicate filenames?

Seems like it could be easy enough to add checking for duplicate engines at startup (startup.lua or engine.lua?)

tehn commented 5 years ago

SC gets in a failure state with duplicate engines and becomes non-communicative.

we can, however, check if the user is trying to load something that doesn't exist.

also, generally it's difficult to get your norns into a fail state without a computer as the thing that creates the fail state.