AW: [PD] Scripting

[mark]

Having done a fair amount of investigation today (whilst at work - oops!)
I reckon that first off the scripting thing will simply allow you to write
PD (non DSP) externals in python. After that I will look into how much more
of the PD internals you can expose. This is still a fair amount of work to
make user friendly and useable - however it will allow you to create fairly
interesting control objects pretty much on the fly for a patch.

cheers

mark

-----Original Message-----
From: root at bestweb.net [mailto:root at bestweb.net]On Behalf Of Larry
Troxler
Sent: 26 February 2002 00:18
To: Thomas Grill
Cc: Pd-List; mark at junklight.com
Subject: Re: AW: [PD] Scripting


>
> What concerns dsp and existing pd objects i thought that it would be
> desirable in the future to be able to use this (with a fairly complex glue
> layer and some restrictions for the usable objects, of course) inside the
> python code as well. Maybe, pd classes could thus be mangled into python
> classes and used within the script.
> Naturally, this would impose a lot of design and coding work (if it is
> possible after all...)
>
> greetings,
> Thomas

Just 2$ from my own limited experience so far,

What I with my experimental scheme extern, is that I do not yet miss
these features (the lack of DSP objects and the lack of the ability to
embed existing PD objects into the script).

Of course it all depends on your goals. In my case, I was simply looking
for a method to ease the rats-nest of interconnections, and be able to
quickly come up with "one-off" (i.e. composition specific) objects that
help with this. In other words my purpose was more to give me a
conventional/linear framework for building constructs to simplify my
patches, rather than something more complete. In other words, for
probably 10% of the effort that would be needed for the full solution,
It doesn't bother me that I have to interconnect my scheme object to
seperate DSP boxes to do what I need.

But I don't mean to say that what you are proposing wouldn't be great
indeed!


Larry