[PD] Iterative text with Gem?

[geiger]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, B. Bogart wrote:
> Maybe a string type should be higher on the PD list than a video/image
> type?

In order to not confuse the user with the differences between strings and
symbols, I would say a garbage collector for symbols would be a good idea.

We would have to adapt externals that use symbols in that case, but for
the user it would be transparent, which means no memory leak anymore.

I have been working a bit on a system like this, but nothing to show
around yet. And chances that it gets accepted by Miller are slim I fear :(

Günter

>
> .b.
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>
> Alexandre Quessy wrote:
> > On 8/7/06, chris clepper <cgclepper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/7/06, Alexandre Quessy <listes at sourcelibre.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 8/7/06, B. Bogart <ben at ekran.org> wrote:
> >> > > Remember its probably not a good idea to work with 1000s of
> >> symbols in a
> >> > > patch, due to that ol lookup table stuff, better to use meta-messages
> >> > > (or lists) to feed text to [text3d].
> >> >
> >> > Can text3d concatenate list that we send it ?
> >> >
> >>  text3d displays whatever text you send to it.  Nothing more, nothing
> >> less.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Right. So, if we want to write iterate text, we will need to do
> > something that will cause a memory leak...
> >
> > Feature request : No memory leak with symbols !!  ;-)
> >
>
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