[PD] pd fileformat description online

Krzysztof Czaja czaja at chopin.edu.pl
Wed May 11 21:49:55 CEST 2005


hi Tjeerd,

tjeerd at meentflat.nl wrote:
...
>   http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~tjeerd/pd/pd_fileformat.html
> 
> there is a fileformat description for PureData version 0.37, written by
> Simon Asselbergs and me.
> If you find this document incorrect or incomplete please send us an e-mail

hmm... is not this too complete?  the basic syntax is more or less
(apart from the scanner part):

patchfile ::= message*
message ::= targetname atom+ ';'
targetname ::= symbol
atom ::= float | symbol

the rest is evaluation: passing messages to targets...  so, any
message will do, as long as there is a method defined for
a target's class.  Any targetname symbol will do, as long as its
bound to an object during evaluation of the message.

Krzysztof




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