[PD] Simple PD GUI enhancement - like Max Toolbox

Thomas O Fredericks tof at danslchamp.org
Tue Sep 11 00:17:12 CEST 2007


Starting from scratch (an empty patch) you can do it with internal messages.
But with a currently build patch it is not possible now.

Tom

On 9/10/07, Kyle Klipowicz <kyleklip at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell, you can do this with internal messages to Pd. Am
> I off base here?
>
> ~Kyle
>
> On 9/10/07, Batuhan Bozkurt <batuhan at batuhanbozkurt.com> wrote:
> > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sep 9, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Batuhan Bozkurt wrote:
> > >
> > >> pat wrote:
> > >>> Batuhan Bozkurt a écrit :
> > >>>> Hello,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I've made the switch from Max/MSP to PD 1-1.5 years ago right
> before
> > >>>> I switched my OS to linux and I'm loving almost every moment of it.
> > >>>> But there is only one thing I got used to while I was using Max and
> > >>>> after all those months of PD programming, I still miss that feature
> > >>>> that was made possible with a js addition called "max toolbox".
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> Thanks,
> > >>>> Batuhan
> > >>>
> > >>> hello, you might be interested about this:
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/DesireData
> > >>>
> > >>> in fact I believe after a discussion with a max user that the macro
> > >>> feature of desiredata makes it better than max with toolbox.
> > >>>
> > >> Thanks! In fact I know about desiredata and I'm VERY excited about
> it.
> > >> But it is still alpha and project seems halfway behind the first
> release
> > >> in timeline. But when it is finished, it's gonna make things better
> than
> > >> anything for sure!
> > >>
> > >> So the only feasible option for me is to wait? Or do you have any
> other
> > >> suggestions for me? I can live much better with this simple hack I
> > >> mentioned actually, but if it is so hard to implement by myself then
> > >> I'll have to wait for sure.
> > >
> > > I believe that the Max Toolbox is a set of Max patches.  I think the
> > > same thing should be possible to implement using Pd patches as well.
> > > I think you could get some of those features working without too much
> > > hassle.
> > >
> > > .hc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Yes, they are a set of patches but they are all implemented in max
> > "javascript" objects and they exploit the dynamic patch creation
> > possibilities of Max/MSP as you can create patches with scripting in
> > there, realtime.
> >
> > Is there any facility like this in PD? Not necessarily javascript but
> > some sort of "controlling patches structure from another patch"
> facility?
> >
> > If there is a way of connecting two objects together with a cable by
> > patching, and without actually drawing the connection by mouse then I'm
> > sure it will be fairly easy to do it. But I'm not aware of something
> > giving that possibility to me. Is there any?
> >
> > Batuhan
> >
> >
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