[PD] first exercise with data structures

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

I see, limited, buggy, hard learning curve and no easy step by step
tutorial included for beginners...

Not to mention it has been hardly used by the vast majority of users.

I'd like to know of any tutorials or good examples out there.

I've just started tweaking with it to see if I finally learn it, but it's
crashing a lot!!! I'm just changing arguments in the struct object and it
crashes... I clicl on GOP box and it crashes... things like that.

Also, it seems completely incomprehensible how to use them for display in a
GOP subpatch or abstraction. I wonder how the hell can someone manage to do
that and why is it so different than anything else on Pd?

I mean, if you check GOP, the data structuresI displayed just increase
insanely in size, and in João's belzier patches, they are completely out of
the red graph boundaries.

I'm pending to nevermind about getting myself involved with it indeed. But
any guiding help is appreciated ;)

cheers

2013/5/25 Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>

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>  ------------------------------
>  *From:* Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
> *To:* Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>; pd-list <pd-list at iem.at>
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:18 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [PD] first exercise with data structures
>
> >> They are _extremely_ limited with the current implementation.
>
> >what do you mean by that?
>
> * big resource hog-- you'll get dropouts with drawing instructions
> or animations of any complexity
> * you must choose between using $0 in struct name (for locality) or
> having flexible approach where you can save/retrieve state.  (Unlike
> a "Put" menu array where you can get both)
> * no option to _not_ save ds state with the patch (Unlike a "Put" menu
> array)
> * buffer overflow when reading state from file
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1469910&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> * cannot easily set hotspot for mouse manipulation
> * hotspot bug
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2457992&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> * flickering animation with arrays and/or lots of scalars on screen
> * crashes with nested arrays when changing struct args
> * many other problems
>
> Usable for making a static score/diagram that will not be encapsulated
> inside an
> abstraction, and for array manipulations that don't require any drawing
> instructions.
> So _extremely_ limited.
>
> -Jonathan
>
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