[PD] how do i interact with pd without gui?

[Tim Blechmann]

> > but how is it possible to interact with pd without the gui or some
> > kind of midi device? is it possible to send messages to pd from the
> > command line (maybe via netsend/recieve or osc)
> 
> interesting question, I don't know actually
> 
> but you can use some keys of the ascii keyboard for "play", "stop",
> "rec", etc, and print messages in the shell if you need to (simply
> with the [print] object)
that was my first thought, but if you press a key on the console, it's
not grabbed by pd ... i actually don't know why, but it's possible, that
pd's keyboard access is through the gui ...

cheers...

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