[PD] feature request (disabled-objects)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Yves Degoyon wrote:

> >1. wrong objectbox arguments (error in object creation) should result in
> >an objectbox being drawn using a dotted or dashed contour. externals
> >should be able to say "this object can't be constructed properly"
> they definitely can and returning NULL in object_new
> would trigger such a message in pd.

oh. thanks.

On 16 Mar 2003, Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 03:14, Yves Degoyon wrote:
>>> 2. changing an objectbox's arguments to something wrong should not
>>> delete its connections to other objects. maybe those connections
>>> could be dotted or dashed in turn, but it's also good to leave
>>> them as-is.
>> yes, that's annoying to lose the connections, good point.
> With this the parser will get a bit more complicated because when an
> object is created, pd would have to know all the connections made to and
> from this object. It will go 2 step instead of one.

Well, I don't know why this has to be put inside the parser... quite a
funny thought... (though I haven't seen PD's idea of a parser yet)

> Note that the current mechanism is one of the reason why it is somehow
> hard to implement a MusicV-like language on top of PD, which sometimes
> would be handy.

I have no background with MusicV, and it seems difficult to find
information on MusicV on the net. So could you describe what MusicV can do
that PureData can't ?

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