<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 2, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Peter Brinkmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Rich E <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reakinator@gmail.com">reakinator@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
I do think it is important to separate these things into bite size chunks (I think IOhannes mentioned this as well during his LAC talk). Peter, your blog post talks of creating an API for editing patches (<a href="http://nettoyeur.noisepages.com/2012/01/refactoring-pure-data/" target="_blank">here</a>), and while I look forward to these capabilities, I think this is also a separate job as to the one Miller proposed on this thread, which I see as taking care of the static state in pd. I don't think I could prioritize these two different jobs, but I'd say multiple instances allows us to definitively crush max, as we'll have a pd vst. :)</blockquote>
<div><br>I harbor no hostility to Max, but I agree that getting rid of global state and allowing multiple instances should be the first order of business. Any ideas?<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The way I see the "editing API" is the converse of the pd-gui --> pd communications: pd messages. My approach is to do it bit by bit. Take a chunk of the current pd-gui --> pd communications and refactor into something that looks like a pd message (Tcl proc calls can look the small, luckily, the syntax is similar in some basic ways).</div><div><br></div><div>Ico has recently refactored array moving into a single 'move' command, that's in pd-l2ork. I haven't looked at that yet. But that's the same idea.</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; ">"A cellphone to me is just an opportunity to be irritated wherever you are." - Linus Torvalds</div></span>
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