[PD] seperate GUI communication protocol?

[shift8]

if your goal is simply to control pd from an external GUI while running
pd -nogui, it's pretty easy to do using OSC and your favorite language
and/or gui toolkit.

i just did this the other day with glade-2, perl,
Net::OpenSoundCountrol.

to use sends in pd for this purpose, you can just do something like
dumpOCS - symbol2list - route to drop the "/", pack, 
[; $1 $2{


On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 19:05 +0200, Thomas Grill wrote:
> >Out of curiousity I just had a look at this document:
> >http://puredata.info/community/projects/convention04/lectures/tk-grill/
> >
> >This seems to be exactly what I need (with or without Python wrapper).
> >Why is dyn~ better?
> >
> >  
> >
> It's not that dyn~ is better, it's just different - it provides an easy 
> way for in-patcher scripting, but for that it internally uses the 
> current m_pd.h API.
> The dyn API is far more general, it is a proposal for a C interface to 
> replace this current PD API, but at the moment it's not integrated into 
> the PD kernel, therefore needing much more resources than necessary. 
> This is ok for smaller applications but not for larger ones, as a 
> replacement for a patcher system would be.
> However, you are welcome to use it and i'm happy about any feedback.
> 
> best greetings,
> Thomas
> 
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