[PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

[marius schebella]

hi,
I doubt that these categories will be as hierarchical and structured as 
proposed here.
for example the pdp objects, gridflow and gem(pix and particle+related 
objects) are good examples for libraries.
but zexy and cyclone are libraries where even after so many years I 
still don't know what some of the objects do or to which library they 
belong, so here the categorizations could make sense.

still, I think this is much more important for documentation and 
pedagogical reasans than with relation to avoiding nameclashes or 
similar, because then we would still end up with two gate objects in the 
same categorization...

btw I also care more about the functionality of an object than whether 
it is implemented as a C-external, an abstraction or a lua script. so 
again a good reference, documentation and communication of available 
object classes is what I think is missing most.

marius.


with some libraries this

João Pais wrote:
> just a couple fast general comments (must leave in 15m):
> 
> - how about 3 (?) general categories, where everything else is organised?  
> It might be easier to keep everything in mind.
>    - glue/control
>    - singal/audio
>    - GUI
> (probably there are more main categories?)
> 
> - maybe it's time easier to make a puredata.org page for this? and open it  
> to the main list?
> 
> will try to give concrete comments later.
> 
> 
>> Luke Iannini a écrit :
>>
>>> And, here's an example from my own sfruit/ collection:
>> i try to make some correction to add somes stuff...
>>
>>> gui/ (for extending, interacting with, or working around limitations
>>> of the IEMGUIs)
>>> ds-gui/
>>> ds-abs/
>> input
>> 	keyboard/
>> 	hid/
>>> color/
>>> control/ (i'm guessing everyone has enough of these that we'll have to
>>> make this finer-grained)
>>> dialog/ (these are different manifestations of "dialog boxes" in Pd)
>>> gem/
>> network
>> 	OSC/
>>> list-abs-extended/ (these are list-abs that require objects not in
>>> Pd-vanilla (a restriction laid down by Frank long ago for list-abs))
>>> midi/
>>> sequencing/
>>> signal/
>>>     envelope/
>>>     mix/
>>>     oscillators/
>> 	filter
>> 	effects
>> 	table
>>> os/
>> physical_model
>> matrix
>> preset
>> ...
>>
>>
>> cyrille
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