[PD] locality with new [field] object (Jonathan Wilkes)

[jamal crawford]

oh nice :) im looking forward to this

cheers


On Wed, Sep 2, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't clarify that these are brand new changes I made in my
> port of the GUI away from tcl/tk to nw.js.  I developed them as a
> diversion from the otherwise mind-numbing task of measuring fonts,
> fixing scrollbars, etc.
>
> I'll try to post a screencast later.
>
> -Jonathan
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>  On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 2:29 PM, jamal crawford
>  <threen52 at ml1.net> wrote:
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> hey list, Jonathan.
>
>> You start with a struct:[struct foo float x float y canvas a b] Then
>> create a scalar from this struct. The scalar will have an "x" value,
>> a "y" value, and a canvas "a" which gets filled with the contents of
>> an abstraction "b.pd" that is somewhere in Pd's search path. Now
>> here's the neat thing-- inside the newly instantiated "b.pd" you can
>> do this: [loadbang]|[field x]|[print x]
>>
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>> imagine you have a drawing instruction like this:[draw rect 0
>> 0 20 20]
When you create the scalar you get a little black box on a canvas. With
a canvas field like I described, you can right-click the scalar and
choose "Open" to show a canvas window.
>
> while trying to create [struct foo float x float y canvas a b], i get:
> canvas: no such type, using pd 0.46.6 what am I missing?
>
> ~/.jc
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