[PD-dev] Receive from Pd into tcl plugin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

(I cc'ed pd-dev since I think this is a topic of general interest).

Yes, that's how it would have to happen, as far as I know.  The idea  
is to have a simple way to get the messages on the pd-gui side,  
something like pd_bind.  To start with, I think just having a single  
receiver 'pd-gui' setup, then plugins would use something like [pd-gui  
mousecursor target(, and whatever proc was registered to receive the  
'mousecursor' messages would be called.  I think a real simple  
implementation would be to just make a ::pd-gui:: namespace, then  
people would create procs in ::pd-gui:: to receive messages.  So like:

proc ::pd-gui::mousecursor {args} {
	$tkcanvas configure -cursor [lindex $args 0]
}

And the pd-gui receiver would just strip the 'pd-gui' part and exec  
the rest.

.hc

On Apr 12, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> Hi Hans,
>
> I am curious, would it be possible to bind a function in Pd to catch  
> all
> messages and send them through to a tcl/tk proc? Not that I want to  
> do this, I
> am just curious. It might be best to set up a callback style  
> arrangement where
> inside the tcl/tk plugin the developer can make a call specifying  
> which receive
> symbol(s) they would like to listen for. That would make things  
> pretty flexible
> and allow multiple plugins to use the functionality too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:21:06PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> The easiest way is to create a proc in `pd-gui`, then bind a  
>> function in
>> `pd` to a  receive symbol, then have that function call the proc  
>> using
>> sys_vgui().  I've been thinking that we should have a pre-registered
>> 'pd-gui' receive symbol which will automatically get set to `pd-gui`,
>> just like the 'pd' receive symbol gets sent to `pd`, but I've never  
>> found
>> the time.  Please beat me to it! :-D
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Mar 29, 2011, at 2:46 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hans,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to use the pd_connect tcl in the same way that it
>>> does pdsend
>>> to receive data back from Pd? I am persuing a bit of a hack of an
>>> idea.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Chris.
>>>
>>> -------------------
>>> http://mccormick.cx
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "Making boring techno music is really easy with modern tools, but  
>> with
>> live coding, boring techno is much harder." - Chris McCormick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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