[PD-dev] formatting HTML doc in Pd distro?

[Christof Ressi]

> and a "system" to run a program asynchronously and return its standard
> output as Pd messages.  Maybe also a message to open a program and keep
> it open so that Pd can send it stuff as input and collect the output.  All
> this would be kicked up to teh Tcl/Tk layer, so none of it would be "real-time".
>
> Also high time to be able to get the patch's containing directory using
> only Pd vanilla.  I think there are 10 or 20 other things this object should
> eventually do!

this sounds very promising :-)

Christof

> Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juni 2019 um 18:24 Uhr
> Von: "Miller Puckette" <msp at ucsd.edu>
> An: "Alexandre Torres Porres" <porres at gmail.com>
> Cc: pd-dev at iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD-dev] formatting HTML doc in Pd distro?
>
> >
> > For the moment I'm planning to just put an attempt at documentation for
> > > slop~
> > > on my own page and point to it from the slop~ help file (which will require
> > > fixing Pd to be able to open URLs).
> >
> >
> > This is what I don't get. How would you "fix Pd" to open URLs? With the new
> > [pdcontrol] object?
> >
> > cheers
>
> Yep.  At the moment, I'm thinking of having it take an "open" message to
> open a file in the OS, a "fetch" or "httpget" or something to open a URL,
> and a "system" to run a program asynchronously and return its standard
> output as Pd messages.  Maybe also a message to open a program and keep
> it open so that Pd can send it stuff as input and collect the output.  All
> this would be kicked up to teh Tcl/Tk layer, so none of it would be "real-time".
>
> Also high time to be able to get the patch's containing directory using
> only Pd vanilla.  I think there are 10 or 20 other things this object should
> eventually do!
>
> cheers
> M
>
>
>
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