[PD] database-like stuff in pd

Georg Holzmann grhPD at gmx.at
Thu Nov 16 14:16:32 CET 2006


Hallo!

> - load up a whole bunch of samples (or floats, or symbols)
> - group the samples (or floats, or symbols) by tagging them
> - be able to call up any sample/float/symbol with a particular tag, 
> possibly randomly.
> 
> i'm thinking something along the lines of a database object, which i 
> could send messages of the form eg [add <key> <value>( to store values 
> tagged with a particular key; then i could have another instance of the 
> database object which i could hit with messages eg [findfirst <key>( or 
> [findrandom <key>( to spit out a <value> with the matching <key>
> 
> does something like this already exist?
> 

PDContaier has various containers where you can do exactly these 
operations ...
it's in pd-cvs/externals/grh/PDContainer

LG
Georg




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