[PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors
> To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:47 PM
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> > Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors
> > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> > Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 4:05 PM
> > 
> > On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > >> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> > >> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch
> > Authors
> > >> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> > >> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> > >> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:00 AM
> > >> 
> > >> It is Pd, so I think we should at least make
> an
> > effort to
> > >> make things easy to parse in Pd.  I tried
> > your parser
> > >> using data that is probably closer to what
> we
> > might use, and
> > >> it didn't work at all.   If someone
> > can get a
> > >> Pd parser working that can handle the commas
> well,
> > then I
> > >> would be OK using commas in the meta data
> format.
> > >> 
> > >> Here's my data:
> > >> tags - pure data, frequency modulation,
> synthesis
> > > 
> > > Hi Hans,
> > >     I wouldn't expect my example
> > to work as a general solution.  If you
> > > want a general solution, I'd be happy to take a
> stab
> > at it, but you
> > > haven't said what you want Pd to do with the
> data
> > example you've provided
> > > above.
> > 
> > Ah, sorry, I thought you'd followed the object_db.tcl
> > plugin discussion and the [pd META] discussion with
> > Frank.  Basically, the object_db.tcl plugin builds a
> > multilevel menu for finding objects based on tags. 
> I'm
> > am sure people will think of other uses for the
> tags. 
> > Frank suggested using comma separated tags in his [pd
> > REFERENCE] format, the PDDP group came to the
> conclusion
> > that the meta data should be easily parsable by Pd,
> and I
> > still think that's a good idea.
> > 
> > So the idea is to have every help patch have a [pd
> META]
> > subpatch, and in it, have a comment with tags.
> > 
> > .hc
> 
> Oh, ok.  I'll have a look at that discussion.
> 
> -Jonathan

Yes, I have seen this discussion.  But I'm still confused: are commas 
a problem in tcl?  If not, I still don't understand the problem (see 
attached).


      
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