[PD] DesireData escaping code

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> That sounds like the same symptom as when there is an extra unquoted 
>> open-brace.
>
> What would it take to convince you to port your DD escaping code to Pd 0.43? 
> :-D :-D :-D

Do you realise that this escaping code relies on a massive change of the 
GUI code ? You wouldn't need the whole set of DD's GUI changes (no need to 
import DD's buggy parts, for example...) but it would be a quite massive 
change.

Otherwise, you'd have to rewrite the escaping code so that it fits in Pd 
43.

Basically, IIRC, what happens is that DD saves 
spaces/backslashes/braces/etc correctly to disk when within symbols. All 
versions of PD are already equipped to load them correctly, but not to 
save them. Then DD's GUI code uploads single lines of .pd files to the GUI 
side and then the GUI side parses them correctly.

Note that apart from PD's C-based parser and DD's Tcl-based parser, all 
other parsers that people have posted on pd-list and/or puredata.info are 
incomplete parsers, as they can only parse what PD can currently save, not 
what it can currently load.

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