[PD] adc~, pasting, and documentation

[Joseph Zitt]

Replying to myself again: 

While I haven't gotten the broken patches working, I managed to recreate
them piece by piece in new patches, doing some copying and pasting and
some typing from scratch. (

One thing that I found confused me in copying and pasting is that I
expected the pasted objects to appear at the mouse pointer location,
rather than at the same ccordinates as in the window from which they
were copied. While I could see the reason for this from a programming
standpoint, I found it to be a problem, since quite often the paste
happened outside the visible window. When that happened, until I
caught on to what was happening, I sometimes pasted multiple copies,
thinking that the first paste didn't work.)

Another thought: is there a listing anywhere of the characteristics of
externals and other objects, showing the inlets, outlets, and global
variables used in them? I'm envisioning something like:

 inlet 1: signal: audio signal 
 inlet 2: signal: audio signal
 inlet 3: number: mix amount 
                  values:  0: left signal only
                         100: right signal only
outlet 1: signal: blended signal
variable: number: foo_master: determines global level of bogosity

It would be good to have this info in something like the Pure Data
Base. If no such collection exists, I could work on pulling together
something like it over time as I learn PD (maybe in dull moments while
I'm on tour over the next two months). ("cause I'm a tech writer, and
I like collecting and writing up this kind of stuff :-] ) 

On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:06:03PM -0600, Joseph Zitt wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 10:22:13PM -0600, Joseph Zitt wrote:
> > I seem to be stepping into all the weird stuff here...
> > 
> > For the past few hours, I can't seem to get any input via adc~, in places
> > where it worked before and in test patches. The input works OK in the
> > GNOME sound recorder (and I've also booted into Windoze and confirmed
> > that it works there), but nothing seems to come in via adc~ objects in
> > PD. Hooking it through snapshot~ into a VU meter and number box (adapting 
> > the test patch in 5.reference/snapshot~.pd ) I get no result from input,
> > just the same low-level noise that I see when I'm not sounding.
> 
> Self-replying here: I see that the peak level meters in the main window
> do respond to incoming sound, jumping from the usual background levels
> of about 30 (unfortunately, I'm developing this in a noisy basement),
> but jumping to about 90 when I speak into the mic.
> 
> BTW, this is in RedHat Linux 7.2 with pd version 0.34 
> 
> > I may have missed something again...
> > 
> > (The more I work with PD and like it, the more I wish there was a solid
> > manual for it. If I could afford it, I'd immerse myself in the software
> > and write one from the existing sources and what I learn...) 

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