[PD] database-like stuff in pd

sven ml.sven at subscience.de
Thu Nov 16 13:35:59 CET 2006


At 13:05 16.11.2006, Damian Stewart wrote:
>i want to do something like the following:
>
>- load up a whole bunch of samples (or floats, or symbols)
>- group the samples (or floats, or symbols) by tagging them
>- be able to call up any sample/float/symbol with a particular tag, possibly randomly.
>
>i'm thinking something along the lines of a database object, which i could send messages of the form eg [add <key> <value>( to store values tagged with a particular key; then i could have another instance of the database object which i could hit with messages eg [findfirst <key>( or [findrandom <key>( to spit out a <value> with the matching <key>
>
>does something like this already exist?

i'm not really sure from your description what you're trying to do
but have a look at [pool] - this could be the object you're looking
for (comes with good description / examples).

sven. 





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