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[Roman Haefeli]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 23:40 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:02PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Miller Puckette wrote:
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> > >"init" is one of many messages that Pd and its gui send back and forth, 
> > >which
> > >aren't intended to have any user-level functionality... of course, some
> > >of those messages like "connect" have proved useful at the user level; but
> > >none of them are guaranteed to do anything useful or even to be safe.  The
> > >only one that's "supported" is "dsp" for turning audio computation on and 
> > >off.
> > 
> > It's not "supported", not guaranteed and not intended to be used, yet if 
> > you'd remove support for that, people would scream like crazy. It's a bit 
> > like illegal immigrants: the state won't give them an official status and 
> > the state can't function without them.
> > 
> 
> Which reminds me. Somewhere in my PD research, I stumbled across a list of "undocumented" PD commands. Things which would perform some useful actions on the engine.
> 
> Google hasn't helped me find it. I'd like to have this around in case it becomes useful. Any idea where it might be?

are you on pd-extended? it's included somewhere in the doc:
[pd-path]/doc/manuals/pd-msg/

yo, it seems, that many of them are actually 'officially
unsupported'..... (see previous mails).

roman



		
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