[PD] Hi, new user. Question about max/msp and PD

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Mon Sep 13 23:46:00 CEST 2010


On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 09:46 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> > Subject: Re: [PD] Hi, new user. Question about max/msp and PD
> > To: "Frank Barknecht" <fbar at footils.org>
> > Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> > Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 5:19 PM
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Frank Barknecht
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Oh, and instead of [transport] just use a metro with a
> > counter sending to some global receiver. Read from this with
> > [select] to get a kind of Max-5's [timepoint] clone. See,
> > there's no magic behind these new Max 5 features, they just
> > unified a bit what all Max/Pd users do anyway in their
> > patches.
> > 
> > It's also that it's more marketable if they add rather
> > trivial features just so that they can say «Max 5 has more
> > features about time scale !». It's easier than to explain
> > to them that Max doesn't need those features.
> 
> Better object documentation in Pd is a trivial feature in this sense-- 
> it's easier for you to spend your time documenting GF objects than 
> to explain how to read the source code.  (See, there's no magic behind 
> those GF objects!)
> 
> Also, it's more marketable if Max has an object like [textedit] where 
> the user can type multi-line text into a box.  It's easier than 
> picking through the Toxy graveyard and learning that you can't send 
> messages to the widget unless its containing canvas is visible, then 
> trying to work with [entry] and having the data you typed in the 
> box disappear because you minimized the window.  Then realizing that the 
> whole reason you're looking for an object that corresponds to [textedit] 
> is because you can't resize message boxes (and they don't appear on a gop canvas).
> 
> -Jonathan

You could try tkwidgets/text.  I really should finish that library.  Its
close to done, and it'll probably a suite of nice GUI objects, including
something like textedit.

.hc




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