[PD] [PD-announce] macros.

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> This is possible to do with Pd already, no Tcl needed :D
>> http://pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net/pure-data/doc/tutorials/intro/
>> 46.pure_data_files.pd
>
> This is nice, but you're missing the point. We have macros so that  
> we can reproduce keyboard and mouse sequences. This can be useful  
> for some things for which we can't just use Ctrl+d and especially  
> to create automated tests for user interface.

You can do that in Pd also, keyboard and mouse sequences all generate  
Pd messages which you can capture using [tot].  You could send it to  
a pd process to reproduce.  If my website was working you could see  
more on that here:

http://at.or.at/serendipd

> Chun also added a [clipboard] class so that you can pick up the  
> results of Ctrl+c without saving to disk nor using [textfile]. This  
> is also because of automated tests for user interface.

[clipboard] sounds nice.

.hc

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