[PD] PDDP meeting?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I'll be at Ars Electronica, but I could do a meeting Sept 8th or later.

.hc

On Aug 26, 2006, at 1:46 PM, B. Bogart wrote:

> wow, this is an old email.
>
> Derek, Basically what your talking about is covered by the features of
> the meta-data in a PD help patch. Then in pd we can generate a list of
> all the installed (and loadable) objects. We can also search by  
> keyword
> in the description or keywords feilds, like "symbol". I think doing  
> this
> in PD is the best thing to do. As for searching for them that are not
> installed something similar could run in CVS and have a web-front-end.
>
> How are people for a PDDP meeting next week? I'll probably be busy on
> the 29th and 30th, and Sept 1st, but otherwise free.
>
> The index file with all the meta-data for all objects could be made
> pretty and printable... if someone ends up making a script that PS's a
> PD patch we could also use that stuff to generate a PDF with a  
> thumbnail
> of the reference patch.
>
> .b.
>
> derek holzer wrote:
>> Hi HC, Adam,
>>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> I am not opposed to things like PDB or ways of searching for  
>>> existing
>>> objects.  But if you are going to learn the object, functional
>>> examples work best.  But a manual would not be a good way to search
>>> for objects.
>>
>> In general, I don't really agree that a manual with pictures of  
>> patches
>> would be very useful. The functionality to learn and experiment by
>> changing things really isn't there.
>>
>> OTOH, one thing that people in my workshops are always asking for  
>> is a
>> list of all the objects, including the externals. There isn't  
>> really one
>> place to get all this, except online with the PDB, but that's not  
>> a good
>> reference when you don't have any net access. I tried maintaining  
>> a text
>> file with as many as I could, but it's very incomplete.
>>
>> My suggestion would be to make a "dictionary" of objects, maybe  
>> sorted
>> by name, library or general function (dataflow, 3d, audio, video,
>> I/O...), such as the directories which were made by the user  
>> community
>> for CSound. That might be useful as a PDF or hardcopy even. The  
>> PDcyclopia?
>>
>> d.
>>