[PD] why does PD round numbers? (in tables, in messageboxes, etc)

[Martin Peach]

On 2012-04-09 07:31, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 04/09/12 12:39, katja wrote:
>>
>> Doing it better would require a lot of modifications, more than
>> changing some format specifiers. It's a pity we can't see MaxMsp's
>> code, the issues seem to be neatly solved there, like:
>>
>
> i haven't looked at the actual behaviour, but max has a (default) binary
> forma, where it can store numbers without precision loss.
>
> this is of course way easier to implement than trying to save numbers at
> a "reasonable2 precision in a textfile.
>

Here is part of a Max5 patch, a multiply object:

"box" :	{
  "maxclass" : "newobj",
  "text" : "* -57.29578",
  "numoutlets" : 1,
  "fontname" : "Arial",
  "outlettype" : [ "float" ],
  "id" : "obj-19",
  "fontsize" : 12.0,
  "patching_rect" : [ 294.0, 382.0, 73.0, 20.0 ],
  "numinlets" : 2
}

It is stored as a text file in a format not unlike xml. It may be that 
floats are stored as doubles inside Max5 but the patcher is saved as text.



Martin