[PD] zexy: >~, <~, ==~ not working on osx: hexloader problem?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 18, 2007, at 11:19 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Kevin McCoy wrote:
>> just a note to say that i have noticed this as well... i cheated by
>> copying the folder from 39-2 but i don't see why that shouldn't work
>> (it has for other things)
>>
>> i need my [>~] and etc back :) no spectral gating until that happens
>>
>
> the hexloader seems to be broken in newer versions of pd.
>
> instead of fixing it in pd, i have decided to write an external  
> loader.
>
> but i don't know where i should put it....
>
> the obivous place would be ./externals/loaders/
> but this seems to be occupied by the libdir loader.
> i would rather have it (and all other loaders to come) in separate
> directories rather than in a flat structure.
> (this would mean something like ./externals/loaders/hexloader and
> ./externals/loaders/libdir but the latter would mean moving the
> libdir-loader around which i won't do since it will eventually break
> things...)
>
> how should i proceed?

Hmm, I like the idea of encapsulating the hexloader code, but I think  
if the hexloader is a separate loader, then the other loaders won't  
benefit from its translation of non-alphanumeric ASCII.  I think the  
way the loader stuff is implemented, it is just a failover, if the  
first loader fails, then the next one tries.  I think that the  
classname should be the filename not only for objects written in C  
and Pd, but also any other language.

If you are rearchitecting this stuff, I would like to make a  
suggestion.  What I would also like to see is that the hexloader is  
split into two naming schemes: file system, which would translate  
only / \ : * ? " < > | and the setup function, which would do the  
whole translation.  That would make the files a lot more readable.

If the loader is the route you end up taking, the CVS directory  
hierarchy sounds good to me, feel free to move the libdir loader to  
it's own folder, or leave it.

.hc

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