[PD] Prototype for adding an object browser into Pd Vanilla's core

[Pierre Alexandre Tremblay]

But is there a way to read programmatically the state of ‘installs’ ? If so then this new addition of a menu would tap into it and voilà, low/no maintenance and custom, situated content!

> On 10 Mar 2023, at 09:46, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
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> Am 10. März 2023 10:34:52 MEZ schrieb Pierre Alexandre Tremblay <tremblap at gmail.com>:
>> Great idea Alexandre
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>> Loads of wisdom, IOhannes
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>> The one bit that stick with me is this:
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>>> but as long as it requires manually maintaining a database of any change in the objects, i strongly believe that the architecture ought to be reconsidered.
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>> Even if it stays as a plugin/extension/whatever, having a call to the pd api to list all content of registered/loaded/downloaded externals would be great. Then adding a category to the Decken distribution and there is a taxonomy that is programmatic and everyone can join in…
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> Actually there is (was?) such parsable information embedded in help-patches and the <library>-meta.pd files (btw this parsable info is the raison d'etre for the meta files).
> That was proposed about 15 years ago...
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