[Fwd: Re: [PD] controlling jMax from the Web and from PureData]

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Yves Degoyon wrote:

> ahah, it's been years we're making CGI's
> that sends controls from web pages to
> Pure Data.

True, but I'm talking about jMax here... I'm also talking about PD in the
same mail, and I doubt PD can talk to jMax by UDP by its own means.

> ( maybe you're not aware of this as well as you don't know about
> subpatches and say : Pure Data can't do this, blah, blah, blah, ... )

Well I don't know everything, and sometimes I don't do my research, and
sometimes I'm misled, and then I look like a troll or like an ignorant, 
but such is life, and then I stand corrected.

> besides, i could never set GridFlow to work
[and from another mail]
> no, let's say, do binary distros if you feel users can't learn
> compilation basics, but, well, be bored with "version X.Y is not
> compatible with my debian x.y.z, blah, blah, blah, ... )

Nowadays I'm getting that kind of problems with random distros, and I
never ever distributed binaries.

Now if you could help me troubleshoot your problem...

> and there's not a single help patch included for pure data....

Actually, if you look in gridflow/doc, you will find a quite elaborate
manual, HTMLized.

And the help patches for jMax are out of date, too.

GridFlow is not appropriately described by help patches, which are nice
for objects that have quite obvious patterns of behaviour, but for
GridFlow I can't do that, else I'd need to add GUI objects (grid viewers)
that I don't have the time to add. And that would not fix the problem of
creating online (web) doc, and keeping all the forms of doc in sync, and
creating doc for things that are *not* objects and never will, and the
fact that PD comments delete their own linefeeds upon saving!

> it's funny for someone who criticize
> PD all the time

If you'd criticize gridflow a little bit more then I'd know what's going
on!

> ( yeah, i don't like too much your posts )

You know, it's a matter of taste.



On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Yves Degoyon wrote:

> i'm quite sorry that i've been so rude,

Ça en prend plus que ça pour m'atteindre.

> but, please, check that what you say about PD is accurate,

see above... i'll try to make an effort here...

> about gridflow, sorry, no success here and even though i'd have,
> as there's no help patches, i don't really know where to start..

the manual, the manual...

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Mathieu Bouchard                       http://artengine.ca/matju