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[soundfiler] not saving files and default values for flags #177

Closed porres closed 3 months ago

porres commented 7 months ago

The example uses a '/tmp/' directory to write to, but this directory doesn't exist, so noting gets saved.

I think it would best to also use [openpanel] and [savepanel] in the examples by the way.

Also, the documentation doesn't specify what are the default values for all flags.

porres commented 7 months ago

I also noticed that normalization seems to be the default option for 'write', so no need to use the -normalize flag!

porres commented 7 months ago

I also noticed that normalization seems to be the default option for 'write', so no need to use the -normalize flag!

This is only true if the arrays have values greater than -1 to 1

porres commented 7 months ago

I finished a rewrite of the whole help file, I just need confirmation if the default endianess is 'l' (little), help @umlaeute and @spacechild1

umlaeute commented 7 months ago

The example uses a '/tmp/' directory to write to, but this directory doesn't exist, so noting gets saved.

so what is the problem? the help-file is to document an object, not to create artifacts. esp. it shouldn't create artifacts in the docs/ folder.

i understand your desire to not create any error-message regardless which msgbox you click, but i think that writing random files to a directory that (iff writable) persists, is worse than not writing at all.