[PD] finding objects ?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Ivica Bukvic <ico at vt.edu>
>To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: pd-list at iem.at; Raphael Raccuia <rafael.raccuia at blindekinder.com> 
>Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 3:05 PM
>Subject: Re: [PD] finding objects ?
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>On Sep 7, 2012 1:42 PM, "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Raphael Raccuia <rafael.raccuia at blindekinder.com>
>> > To:
>> > Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>> > Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:04 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [PD] finding objects ?
>> >
>> >T here is a difference between how to use an object/external (which is generally
>> > well documented in help files), and looking for useful objects/externals someone
>> > doesn't even know the existence...
>> > Why is pdpedia offline? if well filled and updated, it's exactly what does
>> > that job...
>>
>> It wasn't updated, and it wasn't "well filled".
>>
>> But even my search plugin and the pd META stuff only solves half the problem. If
>> you want to find "resonant lowpass" and the help patch only says "imaginary part"
>> it's not going to come up in the results.
>And that is exactly why I think we should attack what appears to be two very related issues at the same time.

I can update vcf~ in the PDDP docs at some point, but aside from that what do you have in mind?


-Jonathan


>Best wishes,
>Ico
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> >
>> > rr
>> >
>> > Le 03. 09. 12 12:55, Simon Wise a écrit :
>> >>  On 03/09/12 18:11, Фывапр Олджэвич wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>  yes, I know about help patches, but as Processing and arduino has a
>> > list of
>> >>>  all available commands and operators on a web-site (and it is
>> > douwnloadable)
>> >>>  - it is easear to find objects and commands, which you don't know,
>> > but need.
>> >>
>> >>  everything built-in is listed with the right-click on the background, that
>> > is all that is available without installing extra stuff
>> >>
>> >>  everything you have installed should have help files, if the person who
>> > made them made help files and the package you used installed them
>> >>
>> >>  if for example you use debian packages then help files are installed and
>> > the help browser will show you what you have, and you can look up what packages
>> > are available easily in the usual debian manner ... but that is just the ones
>> > somebody has done the work to package, it is a useful subset of what is
>> > available
>> >>
>> >>  there cannot be a full list of everything anyone has ever made ... there
>> > cannot be a complete list of libraries available in any language
>> >>
>> >>  there are some efforts to try and make long lists of what is out there,
>> > these have been mentioned ... they can never be complete though they can be very
>> > useful
>> >>
>> >>  the number objects available 'out there' grows every day, some are
>> > useful, some may not be, this mailing list is a fairly good guide to some of
>> > that stuff
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  Simon
>> >>
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