[Pd] Scaling Scalars

[Chuckk Hubbard]

Wonderful, thanks!  How on earth did you learn that?

On 11/20/06, João Miguel Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com> wrote:
> have you tried "donecanvasdialog $1 -1 0"? (if I understood the problem)
> send that to your patch window, and will change the "X units per pixel"
> field. the next values are for y and show on parent.
> I use this to rescale a patch with a ds polygon. only the ds get rescaled,
> other bangs and etc don't. all values remain the same.
>
> Am 20.11.2006, 09:55 Uhr, schrieb Chuckk Hubbard
> <badmuthahubbard at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hello.
> > I was thinking I could fix the questionable zoom in my sequencer with
> > scalar scaling.  Instead of redrawing all the scalars, I would have a
> > variable by which all of it were scaled.  This doesn't seem to work,
> > which I expected, but is there some other way?  I tried:
> > [drawpolygon 0 1 0 0 c(-100:100)(a:b) 0 c(-100:100)(a:b) 10 0 10 0 0]
> > I didn't think this would work, but is there something else I could try?
> >
> > The problem is that, as it is, I have a constant 'zoomfact' that feeds
> > into and out of every function that involves display or timing during
> > playing, and every scalar in the score is changed by that factor.
> > Invariably I forget where it goes or what order it should go in and
> > stuff goes wrong.
> > I'm curious whether there's a way for one variable to change only the
> > drawing instructions, but not change the actual values, so that the
> > timing will be unaffected by the zoom.
> >
> > -Chuckk
> >
>
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