[Pd] Messages to windows

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 4:03 AM, cdr wrote:

>> who is in charge about coordinating tcl/tk and pd?
>
> there is no-one in charge
>
>> guess that an option to query objects for their parameters would  
>> really
>> speed up and enhance interface design in pd. something like ";  
>> myhslider
>> get_width"
>
> i think this reflective nature for objects is in the design spec  
> for DesireData (look for the PS published for Piksel '05, or the  
> earlier one for PD-C 1.0). im pretty sure it hasnt reached the  
> point of stability that it is being considered to be rolled into  
> the the mainline version of PD maintained by the original author.  
> one thing that could help change that is for you to test it out..  
> it is in the devel_0_39 branch of CVS
>
> a nice interactive property inspector can be done up in 10 lines of  
> Tk..
>
> in desireData, the object properties are stored in a hash with keys  
> like $_(objectID:property), in ixpd, theyre stored in a TCL dictionary
>
> if what you want is the ability to query any object (including the  
> core, non-GUI ones) for their current state, and set any properties  
> via an inspector, this doesnt quite exist (although with the class  
> inspector from impd you could probably get close to at least  
> knowing what stuff is changeable, without digging thru the help  
> patches or object source)
>
> pd is still a work in progress...

It'd be nice to see some kind of binary release of DesireData so we  
can play without compiling and all that.  Do any exist?

.hc


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