<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:06 PM, tim vets wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/30 Xavier Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xavier.miller@cauwe.org">xavier.miller@cauwe.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hello, greetings from Belgium,<br> <br> I am starting with Pd and have some questions:<br> - does Pd support multi-threading? If not, is it possible to launch many Pd instances and sync them?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>take a look at the [pd~] object </div><div>or you can simply run multiple pd instances and send messages between them...</div> <div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> - can Pd dynamically change its patches without stopping the engine? Can Pd unload some objects, open other patches, connect them?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, though you have to take care a bit. If you load huge files or create or delete many tilde objects, the dsp engine may be interrupted.</div> <div>look at "dynamic patching", or 'pd-msg' stuff</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">- can Pd run without GUI, even without X support?<br> </blockquote><div><br></div><div>yes, do "pd -nogui", don't know if you have to have X running though, I suppose not?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> - can Pd be embedded in an application, and controlled programmatically? (if not, I can use OSC)<br> <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We are using pd as a soundengine for a game development project. ( <a href="http://cityinabottle.org">cityinabottle.org</a> ) </div><div>The main program is python and pd is running in the background (-nogui) with OSC communication.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>That sounds very interesting, I'd love to hear more about it!<div><br></div><div>.hc<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>The arc of history bends towards justice. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></div></body></html>