[PD-dev] sms pd external - design choices

[Martin Peach]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> It would be great to have people start using this string/blob 
> functionality, but it needs to be changed so that it'll work without 
> patching Pd itself.  IOhannes outlined this idea, and we talked about it 
> briefly in the past.
> 
> This current implementation of the string patch will need to be removed 
> from the next release of Pd-extended (and should have been removed from 
> this release).
> 
> The core of the idea that IOhannes mentioned is just declaring an external 
> type number and using that, rather than patching Pd.

It sounds like a good idea but I really don't understand how it can 
work. I would code it but I don't know what to code :(
It seems to me that if a type is unknown to Pd it will not be processed. 
  Last time it took me about two weeks to get the string patch to work, 
and I don't seem to have that kind of time any more, so maybe IOhannes, 
who knows how to do it, could give it a go?


Martin