[PD] translate a patch max/msp to PD

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I was thinking, this would be the perfect place for a sed, awk, or perl 
script.  Has anyone tried to write a script to convert Max/MSP patches 
to Pd, or vice-versa?  It would be a great resource, especially if it 
was developed into a substantial program.

.hc


On Friday, Mar 14, 2003, at 06:27 America/New_York, Krzysztof Czaja 
wrote:

> hi,
>
> would not say 'most', as the missing objects are:  meter~, umenu,
> pcontrol, led, scale, and multiSlider (plus the two I do not know
> about:  panP, and munger~ -- are they abstractions?).  All the
> others load more or less ok via the cyclone, including vpatcher.
>
> Usually, the way missing objects should be dealt with, is not
> removing them, but defining abstraction replacements.
>
> But still, importing max patches is a hard work, unless a patch
> has actually been created as a cross-platform one.
>
> Krzysztof
>
> David McCallum wrote:
> >
> >         Yeah, most of the objects specified in that patch don't 
> exist in
> > Pd. Like multislider and vpatcher, etc. You could take out all the
> > incompatible objects in Max and then give it another go, or just 
> rebuild
> > it in Pd.
>
>
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