[PD] Simple tutorial on using Lua with PD

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Mike McGonagle wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Over the weekend, I was trying to figure out how Lua works with PD. 
> While I have everything installed from the extended stuff, I still can't 
> quite figure out where to begin.

The examples should be clear enough I hope, if you have any specific 
questions about a specific example then please ask :-)

> Is there some sort of README, or something, that explains how to work 
> with "pdlua"? I did try to run the help file that is in the 
> distribution, but when I clicked on the [load hello( message, it 
> complained about not being able to find some 'atom'.

That bug is already fixed in my SVN repository, thanks to robc for 
spotting it (iirc):

svn co https://devel.goto10.org/svn/maximus/pdlua pdlua

Best place to start is reading through the examples, but there is some 
documentation too, and also the source code for details.

I don't use pd-extended so I don't know how much of pdlua is included, 
also it would be nice for pd-extended to use svn:external or whatever 
the mechanism is for tracking other repositories, maybe the stable 
releases could use my stable releases and maybe the autobuilds could use 
the development svn version.

Thanks,


Claude
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