[PD] mtx_* & Extended RC7 WAS Re: [GEM-dev] OSX binary with multi-blob tracking online somewhere?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 10:49 AM, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hmmm,
>
> Unless mtx_ conflicts with something else should they not be
> instanciated by mtx_* and not iemmatrix.mtx_*
>
> I like these namespaces, but it does make using patches from
> non-installer machines a little irritating. (searching for broken
> objects and replacing with the namespace name...)

If you load all the libs, then it'll act as if everything was directly  
in extra.  So if you load "iemmatrix" as a lib, then [mtx_print] will  
work without [iemmatrix/mtx_print].

> Maybe we need this [import] stuff sooner than later...

Yes indeed!  A real import would be lovely.  But unfortunately, not so  
simple.  There is a very basic [import] included in Pd-extended.  In  
order for it to work, it needs to be the first object loaded in a  
patch.  You can ensure that by cutting every object in a patch except  
[import], then pasting it all back and saving it.

.hc

>
> .b.
>
> james tittle wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2006, at 4:50 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
>>
>>> After a lot of Jamie's help I finally got a gem CVS version to work
>>> on my
>>> OSX machine. I ended up having to use RC7 to load the Gem binary  for
>>> some
>>> reason, and I could not get my local copy to work (PD said it was
>>> loaded,
>>> but I could not create any Gem objects).
>>
>>
>> ...good to hear!
>>
>>> Anyhow I have pix_multiblob working, and I was trying to use the help
>>> patch but it seems that the pd extended RC7 does not include mtx_*   
>>> which
>>> is needed by the blobtracker help. :(
>>>
>>>  mtx_*
>>> ... couldn't create
>>>  mtx_*
>>> ... couldn't create
>>>  mtx_*
>>> ... couldn't create
>>>
>>> Could this be added to the extended installer? Since I am unable to
>>> get a
>>> recent verson of Gem to load into PD using anything but RC7 (RC4   
>>> did not
>>> work). blech!
>>
>>
>> ...actually, these are included in RC7, but they would have to be
>> accessed as [iemmatrix/mtx_*]...I don't think this issue is really
>> covered in the docs, certainly not in the RC* series, so this is a
>> major documentation oversight, IMHO...
>>
>> ...the ReadMe.html also only lists a few of the included libs and
>> versions, with no mention of how to access anything from, say zexy...
>>
>> james
>>
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