[GEM-dev] CVS checkins

[zmoelnig at iem.at]

Zitiere guenter geiger <geiger at xdv.org>:

> > i just noticed, that you can set the "point of emittance" now, which
> is
> > even better for moving particle-sources than [part_vertex] (which i
> > won't delete)
> 
> cool,
> I have two suggestions though.
> I think it would make more sense to combine the domain and the
> vector (domain parameters) message.
> Mainly because if I want to change the domain I would like to change
> the domain parameters too, in one message as "sphere 0 0.2 0 0.3".

well, i'm sure, you most probably will want to change the domain parameters 
when changing the domain.
however, it is likely, that you will want to change *only* the domain 
parameters and not touch the domain-type itself quite often.
so 2 separate inlets make sense.
i agree that the "first" of these could eat arguments like "sphere 0 0.2 0 0.3".
but how again was the solution to get "anythings" into "right" (not-leftmost) 
inlets ?
i think "list sphere 0 0.2 0 0.3" is even more clumsy than two separate 
messages "symbol sphere" and "0 0.2 0 0.3" (ok, "symbol sphere" looks clumsy 
too, but there are ways to generate symbols out of anythings, whereas there are 
none to convert anythings to lists (in plain pd!))

> 
> Can the m_numberToAdd parameter be changed to float (libparticle
> supports
> float for this parameter) and will happily emit 1/2 particle per
> frame.
of course, but since i don't have access to the CVS right now, feel free to 
change it yourself ;-)
> 
mfg.as.rd
IOhannes