Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] setoption not overriding when compileCsd used

I guess that's ok because compileOrc does not set any options. If we call compile() a similar thing happens to compileCSD().

Prof. Victor Lazzarini
Maynooth University
Ireland

> On 6 Nov 2025, at 00:44, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Setting it after compileCsd looks to be working. It's odd as in other
> scenarios where I use compileOrc with string text, I usually call
> setOption() prior to compileOrc. I'll review some things and sort it
> out. Thanks for that!
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM Victor Lazzarini
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I think the call order may be the factor here.
>> csoundSetOption() is called and then the CSD is read, setting the options again. I think that if it is called after the CSD is read, then it will override it, but not before.
>> 
>> If you look at the code, csoundSetOption() calls argdecode to set the options passed to it.
>> Then the csoundCompileCSD() reads the CSD and calls argdecode to do the same. So I think basically it can override previously set options.
>> 
>> As far as I can remember, this was also how the 6.x API worked (the functions did not change in that regard).
>> 
>> 
>> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>> Maynooth University
>> Ireland
>> 
>>>> On 5 Nov 2025, at 23:14, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
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>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Not sure if it's just me but I'm working on a webaudio example and
>>> found that if I had "-Wooutput.wav" in CsOptions in a csd, then in my
>>> code used:
>>> 
>>> cs.setOption("-odac")
>>> cs.compileCsd("test.csd", 0)
>>> 
>>> the setOption would not override the csd's CsOptions. I was expecting
>>> setOption to override in the same way that:
>>> 
>>> csound -odac test.csd
>>> 
>>> would have the command-line option override the CsOptions.
>>> 
>>> Wondering if this is a bug in the API?
>>> 
>>> Steven