[PD] lua scripting for pd objects

Roman Haefeli reduzierer at yahoo.de
Fri Apr 11 17:29:08 CEST 2008


hi marius

sorry to switch in so late, but let me mention another approach. if you
only have numeric arguments for your abstractions, you could
alternatively still use [repeat] and read the different values from
a/several table/s. that is what i usually do, when i need - let's say -
1000 cuboids at different positions with different colours. like this
you wouldn't need thousands of instances of a certain abstraction, but
only one, where you send thousands of messages to for each frame. 

don't know, if this would work for what you want, though...

roman



On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:47 -0400, marius schebella wrote:
> thanks for all the answers, I guess I am really looking for something 
> like actionscript for pd, based on lua or python. I understand that all 
> of the suggested solutions are working, but all have some minor 
> downsides, or overheads (of coding) or dynamic restrictions.
> marius.
> 
> Thomas Grill wrote:
> > Hi Marius,
> > i've used py and dyn~ in combination for such stuff many times.
> > With that many objects it makes probably sense to put the abstractions 
> > in subpatches (e.g. 30 subpatches with 100 objects each) as pd has 
> > problems with many objects in one canvas.
> > gr~~~
> > 
> > Am 10.04.2008 um 18:10 schrieb marius schebella:
> > 
> >> hi,
> >> i need to create a lot of instances (let's say 3000) of a gem
> >> abstraction. each instance has to hold it's own variables, so it is
> >> difficult to work with repeat.
> >> In the past I always used pd-messages to create these objects, but I
> >> have the feeling that it would be faster and easier to do in a scripting
> >> language like lua.
> >> are there any plans to support scripting of pd objects (in this case gem
> >> objects) within lua or any other scripting language?
> >> marius.
> >>
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