[PD] constructing "data" - how do I see shapes?

[David Marrs]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>David Marrs hat gesagt: // David Marrs wrote:
>
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>>Dear All,
>>
>>I'm very excited by the "data" aspect of Pd and have been spending the 
>>last week reading M.P's papers on the subject and trying to make my own 
>>templates.  Despite my best efforts, however, I still can't work out how 
>>to view the data I construct!
>>
>>Using M.P's own example for a moment:
>>
>>   [struct struct1 float x float y float h]
>>
>>   [filledpolygon 999 0 2 0 0 20 h 40 0]
>>
>>
>>This should provide me with an image of a triangle with an adjustable 
>>height, if I understand correctly, but where is it?!  If I load the help 
>>abtractions on [drawpolygon] and [filledpolygon] new canvases appears 
>>for them automatically with the relevant shapes drawn within, but I 
>>can't work out how to make these canvases appear for me.
>>    
>>
>
>Maybe this data structures tutorial by me can help a bit (one line):
>http://puredata.org/community/projects/convention04/lectures/tk-barknecht/tut.tgz
>
>Ciao
>  
>
Dear Frank,

Thanks for the tutorial.  Unfortunately I can't get it to work. :(  It 
wasn't labeled but I presume it's a pd patch so I added the appropriate 
extension and tried opening it in pd.  Unfortunately Pd doesn't like it 
and shows its disaproval by crashing.

I guess from the compression algorithm that you're a linux user.  
Perhaps something's being lost in conversion?  I'm using WinImp to 
decompress the file, I don't suppose this is the problem, but do you 
have an uncompressed version that I could try?

Thanks anyway, I'll have a look at it in notepad at least and try and 
get some clues from it that way.

David


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