[PD-dev] poly library

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

So I want to start working on a library of different poly, I welcome  
anyone who wants to join in the project.  I have a number of  
sketches, then there is nqpoly~, nqpoly4, and polypoly already  
there.  What needs to happen next is to name it...

any ideas?

fabrik
poly
massproduction
instantiation

.hc

On Nov 16, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I didn't think of changing the behavior by using different wrappers,
>> that makes sense.  I guess with nqpoly4 vs polypoly the main
>> difference in the wrapper.  I think there are a couple advantages to
>> not using a wrapper:
>>
>> - makes it easier and more transparent to find instances when
>> debugging, [$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9] is a strange construct to see
>
> Yep, that's true, but OTOH a wrapper is just a Pd patch, which is  
> much easier
> to change than a dynamic patching construct. That has to be taken into
> account when it comes to longer-term maintainability. Generally  
> less dynamic
> patching is better.
>
>> - it should make it much easier to make the *poly objectclass behave
>> like a normal objectclass, with one file being in extra, but usable
>> anywhere.  This would require [ggee/getdir], but it should be pretty
>> straightforward from there.
>
> You mean getdir for finding the objects to instantiate? Maybe you can
> elaborate this a bit... The big problem of all *polys so far is that
> it's hard for them to finde the objects to instantiate. At first I had
> hoped that your solution of omitting the wrapper would be an easy fix,
> but in my tests it showed the same issue.
>
>> I am not a fan of huge routes, unless they are being dynamically
>> generated.  It makes some really nice line drawings when you have 30
>> or more instances :)
>
> Yep, it looks really cool. ;)
>
>> Is there any real difference in efficiency  between one big route and
>> many small ones?
>
> I don't think so. I'd guess that small ones are a tiny bit less
> efficient because of the additional inlets, but I wouldn't care about
> this.
>
> Ciao
> -- 
> Frank
>
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