[PD] Sending data from PD to another program

[Jared]

David,

Thanks again for your help with the multiple path voting. Your patches 
have been extremely useful. I was hoping to pick your brain on one or 
two things.

I did have a question concerning looking ahead. With your patches (node 
and tree) is there any way to see future the children of nodes? I've 
very successfully used your patch with gem's ability to display text to 
have the name of a node displayed in a gem window by passing [r master] 
to the text display patch.

What I'd like to also do is have the text display the voting choices. 
That is, at node dolphin the patch would display octopus and lobster.

Is that information accessible, or am I out of luck?

As a side note, is there any way to give nodes names with spaces? I've 
been using underscores (node_name) which works well but is a little ugly.

Thanks again for all your help,
-Jared

David Powers wrote:
> Here you go, just use the tree abstraction and create named nodes for
> every event in your story!
> 
> Note that the nodes are hard coded to send to "master", you'd want
> another "master" receiver for your GEM abstraction to select the image
> which goes with the current node.
> 
> Oh, and of course replace the PD selector patch, which sends random 0
> or 1, with your actual voting mechanism.
> 
> ~David
> 
> On 5/6/07, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think I will try to do a quick prototype and email it to you in
>> 15-20 minutes.
>> ~David
>>
>> On 5/6/07, Jared <linux at fridaythang.com> wrote:
>> > David,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the reply. That's basically what I want to do. My concern is
>> > that there are around 80 nodes which have to be displayed in specific
>> > if-then sequences (if it's at node 12 and the vote is A, go to node 33,
>> > if the vote is B go to node 37). My understanding of PD means this 
>> isn't
>> > *impossible*, it'll just be a bit clunky. If you have any 
>> suggestions to
>> > the contrary, I'd love to hear 'em.
>> >
>> > Thanks again!
>> > -Jared
>> >
>> > David Powers wrote:
>> > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but what is it you want to
>> > > display in gem exactly? If, say, you had an image for every possible
>> > > node of the story, this would be trivial to implement. You just give
>> > > each possible story node a name, and send the name as a message. Then
>> > > some abstraction you build in PD/Gem takes the name as input, and
>> > > outputs the appropriate image.
>> > >
>> > > ~David
>> > >
>> > > On 5/5/07, Jared <linux at fridaythang.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>
>> > >> I have very approximate version of the voting working in PD but am
>> > >> unsure how to do the visual output. What I'd like to do is have 
>> PD send
>> > >> the vote information (that is, who won) to another program, either
>> > >> something I'll write or PowerPoint or the like, to run the display.
>> > >>
>> > >> I know PD can do visual output through Gem, but in exploring Gem I
>> > >> couldn't figure out an easy way to have the branching paths work,
>> > >> whereas branching paths in PowerPoint or in a homemade program 
>> could be
>> > >> relatively easy.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
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