[PD] why does PD round numbers? (in tables, in messageboxes, etc)

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 10 16:50:23 CEST 2012





----- Original Message -----
> From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> To: pd-list at iem.at
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] why does PD round numbers? (in tables, in messageboxes, etc)
> 
> On 04/10/12 10:33, katja wrote:
>>  I mean to say that switching to any format other than decimal ASCII
>>  would make it impossible for Pd to interpret patch files using the
>>  current format.
> 
> why?
> 
>> 
>>  Large tables are mostly stored in an audio format, rather than text.
> 
> i was talking about pd/pd-gui communication (and keep the number format for both 
> saving and pd/gui communication the same).
> when displaying/updating a table every single number is converted to text using 
> printf, send over the wire and then converted back to a number for drawing the 
> table.
> it makes a difference if you have to transmit 44100
> *4 bytes or 44100*12 bytes.

Wow!  How wide is your screen?

-Jonathan

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> IOhannes
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