[PD-dev] presets... why not?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Sun Nov 30 18:18:19 CET 2003


Hallo,

Krzysztof Czaja hat gesagt: // Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

> just managed to scan over all the recent talk about state saving,
> presets, etc. on the pd list...
> 
> ...no doubt I am thinking slow.  In fact, I have not even figured
> out yet, why any generic, user-friendly mechanism for storing and
> recalling run-time state is bad in principle.
> 
> Perhaps the reason is not technical at all... but what is it?

I'd be interested in that, too, but regardless of what Miller will
decide: After reading all the talk, the vote of the public seems to be
strongly pro-saving. So it will have to be done one way or the other.
Doing it as abstraction is tedious. The most simple and still flexible
an general solution I could come up with so far is available here: 
http://www.pure-data.org/Members/fbar/patches/memento-0.1.tgz/view

Even that is actually complicated and requires the pool external (plus
prepend).

I'd love to throw it in the trash can if we could instead get a more
general solution inside Pd.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__




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