[PD] [psql] object hand-holding

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:
>>
>>> Frank Barknecht schrieb:
>>>>  But as
>>>> everyone knows that I don't really understand why a DB external  
>>>> has to
>>>> be a C/C++ external, I'll better be quiet now. ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Right. Over and out
>> Basically, only C and Pd externals have proven easy to manage.  
> 
> lua is a C external (or rather a loader) and it's very easy to manage.
> Once the lua loader is built for your system (trivial on Linux and
> probably just as trivial on OS-X and MS-Windows, but I don't have
> access to these systems) a lua objectclasses is the equivalent to an
> abstraction, which especially means, that it's just as easily changed
> and edited by its users without every needing to recompile anything.

Not quite as easy as abstractions - you still have to restart Pd.

Howver, there is also a [luax] object, though, that loads the Lua code 
on each object creation rather than just once for all time, but you 
still have to recreate each object by hand if you change the script.

> Ciao


Claude
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