[PD] to gui or to nogui

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Patco wrote:

> is there an option for opening or closing the graphical interface within 
> the same instance of pd? Something like -nogui but in realtime.

You might mean at runtime. Runtime means "without restarting"; realtime 
means "without clicks/dropouts". Well, maybe that you'd want it realtime, 
but that'd be a bit too much to ask.

PureData can't possibly detach/attach clients at runtime. DesireData could 
in the future, as much of the redesign took this feature into account, but 
it still isn't implemented. When it does, however, you'll also be able to 
connect multiple clients.

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> [; pd gui $1( ?

Certainly not. Instead, you'll do something like:

pd-server -port 12345
pd-client -port 12345
pd-client -port 12345
...

with as many clients as you want, and the ability to add more and remove 
them at runtime. DesireData has client-side selection/clipboard/undo 
mostly because it would help with the multiple clients (among other 
reasons).

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