getErrorString does not stop CHOP execute

Techniques
1

Hello!

I am developing a custom timesliced CHOP operator, but I am not able to stop the operator when an error occurs. The documentation says:

//You can use this function to put the node into a error state
// by calling setString() on 'error' with a non empty string.

getErrorString(OP_String *error, void *reserved1)

I managed to put the CHOP in an error state, but it continues to cook, hence it keeps producing the error.
What could I do?

Thanks!

ddgg

2

It won’t stop cooking when it’s in error, since it needs to be able to re-check if it should clear the error. If you just make the execute return quickly, then the cook time will be small.

3

It make sense. Thank you @malcom.
May I take this chance to ask you something? if we take as example the AudioFilterCHOP, indeed I see that it keeps cooking even if nothing is connected to it, i.e. it’s in error.

But if I look at the info:

info_filter
info_filter954×546 28.9 KB

Start/End does not change, while in my CHOP these values are updated while in error. What does it mean? Or maybe more important, is it relevant?

thank you very much

4

Different nodes may handle error states a bit differently. It doesn’t mean anything really, should be fine.