[PD] specifying time

[Andy Farnell]

Yes, blocks and samples would be great too.

The advantage of having a symbol qualifier in a message 
as opposed to creation arguments of the object is that 
[line~] etc could respond to mixed messages with different units.

Andy


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:26:49AM -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
> A better way might be to give the line~ (etc) objects optional arguments to
> specify units.  I think there aren't many of them (line, line~, vline~, delay,
> metro, delread~, vd~).  I also think that's how Max dealt with it.
> 
> In particular, it would be very useful to be able to specify a delay in
> samples or "blocks".
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 01:21:25PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > 
> > Should be easy enough to implement since it would be a symbol, so it would be clearly separated from the currently arg, which is always a float.
> > 
> > .hc
> > 
> > On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Andy Farnell wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Great suggestion. It makes sense.
> > > And numerical strings are already parsed for e
> > > (exponent) and - (minus) aren't they?
> > > 
> > > Andy
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:10:54PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > >> [del 4m33s]
> > >> 
> > >> [1 3s(
> > >> |
> > >> [line]
> > >> 
> > >> [metro 1d2h4m3s21ms]
> > >> 
> > >> That last one is overkill. :)
> > >> But sometimes you want to work in something other than ms, and it's a pain to make convenience abstractions.
> > >> Kinda like [f $0]--[set $1-blah( is a pain
> > >> 
> > >> If a class with a float method that has no symbol method receives ([0-9]+[wdhms]+)+ 
> > >> then couldn't pd just convert it to a millisecond float value?
> > >> 
> > >> -Jonathan
> > >> 
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