[PD-dev] info classes

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 4:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] info classes
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> On 2013-03-11 04:30, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>>  not really, as there has been the "mediasettings" library 
> around
>>>  for about two years.
>> 
>>  No, it's still difficult to control audio settings
>>  programmatically in Pd Vanilla, Pd-l2ork, and Pd-extended.  Users
>>  shouldn't have to fish around for and compile an external library
>>  just because they'd rather have "ALSA" sent to a canvas 
> instead of
>>  the console.
> 
> probably true, but i don't know how you can fix this.
> 
> it seems like your obvious solution is to include [pdinfo] into
> Pd-vanilla, Pd-extended and Pd-l2ork.

Getting it in 2 out of 3 Pd flavors is good enough for me. :)

> you can also simply include [audiosettings] and [midisettings] into
> Pd-vanilla, Pd-extended and Pd-l2ork.
> 
> the advantage of the 2nd solution is that it is already there and a
> few people are already using it, whereas your proposal gives exactly
> the same functionality but is (afaict) not already there.

For audio settings it's partially there already, because the audio api
stuff is pretty easy to implement and I didn't notice your mediasettings
stuff.

> 
> and [pdinfo] sounds like a query-only object rather than an object
> that can control Pd.

It is.  But I don't think it'd be too hard to add some user-oriented messages
to the "pd" receive symbol for setting stuff.

-Jonathan

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