Re: [fluid-dev] Non-existing file patch.

[Josh Green]

Hello Nick.

Thanks for the patch and making FluidSynth that much more user
friendly :)  Cheers.
        Josh

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 21:42 -0500, Nick Daly wrote:
> I've been using Fluidsynth for a few months now (with Rosegarden, as I
> don't have a midi card, but still like music editing), but recently
> noticed something strange.
> 
> While Fluidsynth does allow users to specify a sf2 file when starting
> the program, Fluidsynth does not complain when that file doesn't
> exist.  For a few days, I've been trying to play my midi files with my
> standard startup script, until I realized that my soundfont file was
> deleted (after a harddrive crash).  Fluidsynth never complained about
> the fact that the file didn't exist at all, and if it had, it would've
> made diagnosing the problem much easier (I was looking at routing and
> all sorts of other things before I thought to check if the file existed
> or not).
> 
> To correct this error (not reporting non-existing files), I've attached
> a patch, which seems to apply correctly against
> fluidsynth/src/fluidsynth.c and Works For Me(tm).
> 
> Thanks for your great work,
> Nick
> _______________________________________________
> fluid-dev mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev