[PD-dev] an idea for Pd structure

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
guenter geiger hat gesagt: // guenter geiger wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, B. Bogart wrote:
> > first float. I think OSC really becomes powerful when the namespace
> > reflects the structure of the patch, rather than being wholly generated
> > and imagined by the user. this opens the door to extracting the function
> > of a patch from the OSC namespace and simply being able to standardize so
> > that patches not made to work together over OSC magically do.
> 
> Great idea, but again, why has this to be done with OSC ?
> I am very much for OSC compatibility of pd, but we should not change the
> style of the pd language for that. I think this would be possible to
> be implemented in pd messages instead of OSC messages. Just replace the
> "/" by a " ".

You miss one central feature of OSC: pattern matching. This is very
useful, as I can access lots of values at  the same time: 

"/sequencer/volume* 100" will set all 64 volume sliders to 100.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__