[PD] syntax of Pd files

[Andy Farnell]

Exactly what I was looking for. Bookmarked.
Thankyou Hans and everyone for your suggestions.

To put it in context... I was attempting to solve/answer
an occasionally recurring problem for someone.. "My Pd
file is corrupt and all the objects have vanished"

I solved this before by trial and error, matching up 
canvas statements with restore statements (It does indeed
work as I thought, pretty much).

a.



On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:09:09 -0400
Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:

> 
> A quick search of puredata.org turns up:
> 
> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/fileformat
> 
> There's lots of good stuff there! :D
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Andy Farnell wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Through trial and error I've managed to reach what I thought was
> > an understanding of Pd file format. However, on deeper analysis
> > I keep discovering I'm wrong, in fact the Pd file structure and
> > the syntax of the statements is not what I thought (which explains
> > many previous programming errors).
> >
> > I think it's been asked before and received no satisfactory answer,
> > so once again - Where is the complete file format and syntactic
> > definitions of the Pd file documented (not by reading through the
> > source of the parser)?
> >
> > Would someone care to go through and explain in a simple tutorial
> > how Pd constructs its netlist and what are the meanings of the
> > parameters to each of these statements
> >
> >
> > #X msg 125 100 bang;
> >
> > An easy one, a message containing [bang( at coordinates 125 100,  
> > right?
> >
> > #X obj 144 128 s $1-zero;
> >
> > And again, an object of class "send" at coords 144,128 with name $1- 
> > zero.
> >
> > #X array $1-THREE 6485 float 0;
> >
> > Maybe an easy one, we create an array called $1-THREE of size
> > 6485 of type float. And an array doesn't need coordinates because a  
> > graph
> > has the coordinates not the array. But what is that 0 at the end?
> >
> >
> > #N canvas 0 22 450 300 graph1 0;
> > #X restore 235 308 graph1;
> >
> > What is the real purpose of restore? What are these parameters? How  
> > does
> > it relate to the canvas?
> >
> > What the hell is coords? Why?
> >
> > #X coords 0 1.02 6484 -1.02 200 130 1;
> >
> >
> > #X connect 60 0 62 0;
> >
> > Can anyone thoroughly explain connections and how their ordering
> > is important? It's an ordered adjacency matrix?
> >
> > I think this would be very helpful for everyone to have
> > properly documented somewhere.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
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