[PD-dev] PD patches in XML

[Johannes M Zmoelnig]

Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I find it hard to give up the basic Pd principle that everything
> may be controlled with messages.  I wonder, if there is any real
> technical reason for abandoning message-based handling of object

i guess there is no technical reason.
you are right, that the simplicity of pd's internal format is one of its 
strengths which need not unneccessarrilly be abandoned.

> state (including visual properties, IDs, whatever), apart from the

but i think it is important that we separate between visual properties 
and functional behaviour.
for an example, the iemguis store a lot of gui-information in a long 
long list of arguments. i think this is bad style, but it is not thomas' 
fault as this is the way how it works: one object is entirely 
representated by one message.
the problem with this is that you cannot expand it (just have a look at 
the evolution of the arguments of the iemgui's)

mfg.a.dsr
IOhannes