[PD-dev] pddp style guide

[Krzysztof Czaja]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
...
> If we can do it in Pd, why not do it in Pd?  The example patches that  

we cannot, unless after developing a browser widget.  Using it
would be perfectly ok, once it is available.

> go with the text would need to be opened from the browser (or  
> whatever).  There are a number of problems with launching .pd files  
> from other applications, many of which are platform-specific and  

no, it is much simpler -- when "pddpserver" receives a GET request
for a path, it might do just this:

if {[string equal [file extension $path] .pd] && [otherconditions]} {
    pd [concat pd open [file tail $path] [file dirname $path] \;]
    set path [htmlpageof $path]
}
#... carry on serving

...
> I am not sure what you mean by "unparsable comments".  Using a  
> multi-line regexp, you can grab all chunks that start with '#X text  

parse-and-pray...

> [0-9-]* [0-9-]*' and ends with a non-escaped ';'.    The '#X text  
> [0-9-]* [0-9-]*' would be equivalent to an HTML <p> and ';' to a </p>   

html is docbook's output, not source...

Krzysztof