[PD-dev] pd-devel code structure meeting on IRC

[mescalinum at gmail.com]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:15 PM, mescalinum at gmail.com wrote:
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>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Now that the core of Pd-devel is working,
>> actually it isn't working on Linux (the main window shows up, but it's
>> freezed)
>
>  Have you tried loading pd first? or pd-gui first?
freezes in both cases.
I still haven't tried debugging it
>
>>> and other people are
>>> starting to mess with it, I figure its a good time to have an IRC
>>> meeting about it.  At this point, the code is working but could be
>>> structured much better.
>>
>> ++
>>
>>> One thing I am realizing is that the code would probably be a lot
>>> cleaner if it was organized in a more Object-oriented style.  I am not
>>> sure that using incr Tcl or things like that are the way, I think we
>>> could probably just organize things into packages that act like object
>>> classes, but I am open to other things.
>>>
>> incrTcl is nice
>> also tcl 8.5 has it's own object system (available as tclOO extension
>> for earlier versions)
>> also is possible to make a tiny object system in pure-tcl
>> I've made mine - it has public/provate methods, widget hiding, it's very
>> much like tk "objects" - see http://wiki.tcl.tk/18151 very beginning of
>> the code defines the object system
>>
>> I'm actually working to a dataflow canvas in pure tcl
>> it actually implements every functionality of the pd canvas and has the
>> same feel, it can mimick the style of pd or max, I added autocomplete
>> feature (bash-style completion)
>> I'm planning adding segmented patch cords (although I'm now stuck with
>> complex line-routing algorithms)
>
> Sounds cool, but I'd say skip the segmented patch cords :)
>
heh, that was mainly marketing.
another cool feature I'm planning is concurrent operation, so that
networked shared patching would be possible and easy to implement
> .hc
>
>>
>>> How about next Thursday or Friday?  Here is one proposed time, which
>>> we can adjust spending on who can make it:
>>>
>>>     * 9.00 Pacific Time
>>>     * 11.00 Central Time
>>>     * 12.00 Eastern Time/PET
>>>     * 15.00 BRST/Sao Paulo
>>>     * 17.00 GMT/Zulu
>>>     * 18.00 Central European CET
>>>     * 19.00 EET/Istanbul/Cairo
>>>     * 23.00 IST/Chennai
>>>     * 1.00 CST/Taipei
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/pdmtgtime
>>>
>>> I am on irc://irc.freenode.net/dataflow a lot, feel free to ping me
>>> about this any time.
>>>
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