[PD] Re: [PD-announce] pool 0.2.0 - a hierarchical storage object

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Thu Aug 12 10:18:38 CEST 2004


Hallo,
guenter geiger hat gesagt: // guenter geiger wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > will or does handle this, too.) For example I have a adsr patch, which
> > could be used stand-alone, but can also be used inside other rradical
> > patches with full state saving and OSC control.  I do this for example
> > in rrad.fm2~.pd
> >
> > This is an important advantage over the preset in Max or [state] in
> > GGEE.
> 
> You can do this easily with state using $ arguments for your abstractions.
> The naming for each state file is name.state where "name" and "state" can
> be chosen freely.

But can I save the state(s) of a full patch which uses various levels
of abstractions into a single file using [state]?

> You can even generate all your envelopes with just one envelope
> abstraction and later handle the setting on a file system level by
> copying them around , duplicating, renaming and reusing in other
> abstraction instances.

But isn't this exactly the problem? It forces a user to depend on
something like the filesystem and its tools and thus is inherently
platform dependent. 

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__




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