[PD-dev] Fwd: PD Strings

[Mike McGonagle]

once again, forgot to send to list...

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From: Mike McGonagle <mjmogo at gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2007 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [PD-dev] PD Strings
To: Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca>


Thanks, Martin, I will have to look at the other thread that is
discussing this. I should have look at that a little closer.

I was curious about this as a way of handling doing some SQL
processing, but then again, if this is not going to be part of the
main, then I wonder if it is a bit too soon to actually expect this to
be there in subsequent releases.

Mike


On 11/12/07, Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Yes it was me...
> If you have the extended version you could try mrpeach/str to see how it
> works. It was intended as a way to send any arbitrary strings of bytes
> through pd without having pd try to interpret them until  the appropriate
> time. The atom is just a pointer to a block of memory and its length. The
> external that uses the type has to maintain the memory itself because pd
> doesn't know anything about it, it just passes string messages between
> objects.
> In the end it may just be easier as Miller said to use lists of floats on
> [0...255] together with objects to convert to and from ascii, etc, apart
> from the fact that lists of floats use a lot more memory than a simple block
> of bytes and the associated packing and unpacking of floats takes more time,
> but then if you're looking for efficient implementation, that's not what pd
> is about.
>
> Martin
>
>
> Mike McGonagle wrote:
> >Well, golly, I just looked at the one from your archive, and odd that
> >you are right (ok, just a bit snide there...)
> >
> >So, is this something that is intended for the Extended release?
> >
> >Anyone care to fess up?
> >
> >
> >Mike M
> >
> >On 11/12/07, Miller Puckette <mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > > Not in 'main' there isn't.  I favor using lists and adding the necessary
> > > formatting/parsing objects instead of adding a new fundamental type.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > Miller
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:00:50PM -0600, Mike McGonagle wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I was looking over the latest version of "m_pd.h", and noticed that
> > > > there is now an "A_STRING" type. Does this mean that PD now supports
> > > > real strings? Is there any examples of this? Or is this still just in
> > > > the development stage?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > > >
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Help the Environment, Plant a Bush back in Texas!

"I place economy among the first and most important republican
virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with
perpetual debt."
-- Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

"Give Peace a Chance" -- John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)

Peace may sound simple—one beautiful word— but it requires everything
we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
—Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), musician

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you are probably right.
—Mark Twain

"Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV."
Ani DiFranco


-- 
Help the Environment, Plant a Bush back in Texas!

"I place economy among the first and most important republican
virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with
perpetual debt."
-- Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

"Give Peace a Chance" -- John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)

Peace may sound simple—one beautiful word— but it requires everything
we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
—Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), musician

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you are probably right.
—Mark Twain

"Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV."
Ani DiFranco