[PD] Fwd: absolute vs relative filepath on oggread~

Ivica Ico Bukvic ico at vt.edu
Sat Feb 9 23:16:43 CET 2013


On 02/08/2013 05:32 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu>
>> To: 'Hans-Christoph Steiner' <hans at at.or.at>; pd-list at iem.at
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 4:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Fwd: absolute vs relative filepath on oggread~
>>
>> But it doesn't give you the name of the patch itself (which could be useful
>> for auto-naming files associated with the patch, e.g. soundfiles). L2ORk's
>> patch_name does everything getdir does (optional argument traverses
>> structure upwards to provide you with info of patches/abstractions above it)
>> plus gives you the patch name.
> So does canvasinfo:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.devel/11601/match=classinfo
>
> with a bang method that prints all the canvas attributes to the console for quick reference.
> Way easier for the user since each attribute is a method within a single object,
> with a standard interface (and if more attributes are needed it's trivial to add them without
> breaking anything).  Also easier to develop, as adding another attribute is as simple as
> adding a method (as opposed to copy/pasting yet another external class, which is the
> equivalent of copy/pasting subpatches instead of learning to use abstractions in Pd).
>
> -Jonathan
>
This has been added to pd-l2ork git...


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