[PD-dev] Re:[PD] More Flext compilation problems

[Guenter Geiger]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Thomas Grill wrote:
> >I think this is a very wise decision.
> >
> >
>
> First, the user should decide - i'm not about to throw it out, but there
> should be a preprocessor definition for it.
> Second, it's not as easy as i thought because the whole attribute
> mechanism depends on $-aware saving and reloading.
> canvas_realizedollar is needed for that, like in the iem-guis. It's one
> of the examples where internals are obviously differently treated from
> externals.
> It seems a solution would be that all externals are put into pd itself,
> so there's no need for an API.

:)
I think the best solution is to talk about what is used and try to make it
into a stable API. This will be hard though, especially a function like
canvas_realizedollor sounds too much like a hack to be a serious candidate
for a stable API .. back to escaping.

Guenter

>
> best greetings,
> Thomas
>
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