[PD] [PD-announce] netpd upgrade

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sounds nice, I'll try soon!

.hc

On Aug 11, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

>
> hi all
>
> netpd significantly changed. whole netpd is now only one patch,
> therefore no additional configuration is necessary, when installing
> netpd. the required pathes and libs are now loaded internally by chat
> with an appropriate [declare]. the 'netpd-path' setting became  
> obsolet,
> because patches are now instantiated as abstractions (no 'open'  
> message
> to pd anymore).
>
> i hope all this makes the netpd experience a bit less troublefull
> (especially for beginners and pd-extended users) and much more fun,
> though it haven't been extensively tested yet.
>
> dependencies:
>
> mandatory:
> pd >= 0.40 (i hope pd-0.40-extended will be released soon)
> zexy >= 2.1
> maxlib
>
> optional (used by some netpd-patches):
> iemlib1
> iemlib2
> iem_t3_lib
> iemmatrix
>
> where to get:
> http://www.netpd.org/Download
> http://www.netpd.org/software/netpd.tar.gz
>
>
> how to contribute:
>
> i hadn't the chance to extensively test on pd-0.40-extended. i'd be  
> glad
> to get reports from pd-extended users. the intention is that, after
> downloading and extracting netpd.tar.gz to some place, _chat.pd can be
> openened from pd-extended and everything should be fine (no errors).
> i'll be online (on netpd or irc #dataflow) for assistance.
>
>
> roman
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> changes:
>
> whole netpd is one single patch now. creator and logview are
> abstractions of chat, all netpd-patches are now abstractions of
> creator. because of that, the path adding feature of [declare]
> could be used. this also means, that no additional configuration
> is needed anymore, when installing netpd. in other words:
>
>  - no '-lib' as start option isn't required anymore, if libs are
>    necessary are installed at standard location.
>  - no '-path ..path/to/netpd/abs' required anymore as start option
>  - no 'netpd-path' settings is needed anymore
>
> - creator v1.5.0
>   * new gui with scrollbar
>   * internal patch management restructured/reprogrammed
>   * patches are not opened anymore (with 'open' message to pd) but
>     are instantiated as abstraction in an own subpatch each.
>   * added a subpatch [pd cr.singletons]. since there is no clean way
>     to implement a singleton pattern in pd, this subpatch was  
> introduced
>     as a place, where netpd-patches can put their singletons. the  
> goal is
>     that the singletons remain open, also when the patch, that  
> initially
>     called the singleton, is closed.
>
> - chat v1.4.0
>   * added scrollbar, so that old messages can be reviewed
>   * added client dependent message colors
>   * redesigned gui
>   * redesigned netpd-settings dialog ('pref')
>   * creator and logview are instantiated as abstractions now
>
>
>
>
>
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