[PD] DesireData escaping code

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 9, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> My guess is that it'll have to be a combo of moving Pd 0.43 to the  
>> DD approach and rewriting the DD code to fit into 0.43.  It sounds  
>> like you have 'pd-gui' saving the file using Tcl code. It should be  
>> possible to port that saving code to C and have it part of 'pd',  
>> and that would then fit into the existing code much easier.
>
> Well, no, or originally not. Ctrl+s is still done by server-side  
> savefn. What you are replying to, was about how the server uses  
> savefn to send stuff by sys_vgui. There are additional layers such  
> as sys_mgui, pd_upload, gobj_subscribe, gobj_changed, manager_class,  
> but basically, savefn sends by sys_vgui.
>
> In desire.tk, I did add the ability to turn a client-side object  
> into a pd source line (#X obj ...) but that was much later in the  
> project, when I added the ability to copy client-side objects to the  
> system clipboard (so that you can paste into a text editor...). This  
> feature could also be used as an alternate way to save to disk, but  
> it's currently not used like that. That feature was called  
> "deconstruct" internally, because it produces the arguments that are  
> needed to construct an object identical to the original, thus it's  
> an opposite of the constructor in that way (but I could have named  
> it savefn too).

>> Would the easiest first step be writing a single, complete escape  
>> mechanism for the pd <--> pd-gui communications?
>
> The first step for achieving what ?

The first step to achieving fully escaped pd-gui communication and  
file saving/loading so that all chars are valid.  Are you interesting  
in working on this?  It would be a huge improvement, and I will  
definitely help where I you want me to.

.hc



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