[PD] RjDj/ScenePlayer for iOS?

[Dan Wilcox]

Yes, Iohannes, RjDj scenes work in PdParty. I have tested all of the scenes
I have from years ago, including interactive ones which use the
accelerometer like the bouncy scene. I do not support scenes generated by
the now defunct rjc1000 elper app nor do I support the scene paging feature
used in the rjdj intro scene, but AFAIK that's the only scene that used it.

I would hope that other libpd based apps would adopt the same rjdj
messaging standard so patches would work, at least, between PdParty &
PdDroidParty.

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The following is not aimed at you, IOhannes, but at noone in particular…

<begin rant>

PdParty has been in beta since September 2013 and I've been talking loudly
about it since spring of last year. Back then I said it would support RjDj
scenes and even posted about my intentions when RjDj was removed from the
app store in 2011.

With the beta, I wrote a very detailed user guide that clearly states that
it not only support RjDj scenes but also has all of the same rj objects and
events ([#touch], [#accelerate], etc). At this point, it is clearly beyond
a port of PdDroidParty as I have reimplemented *all* of the Pd-vanilla/iem
guis in Obj-C & CoreGraphics. In fact, you can animate and change their
color, etc on the fly like in the regular pd gui.

My long term dream would be to add patch creation/editing but that's really
contingent on getting some sort of gui helper layer into libpd as I have no
desire to reverse engineer parts of the existing gui framework.

I have put out beta calls more than once and have only had perhaps middling
interest, with a few people saying they installed it, but far less people
have signed up than I would have thought. (A thank you to those that have
and bigger thank you to those that have provided feedback.) I recently was
told that having to "sign up" for a beta testing service was "far too
difficult" and I should just put it on the app store. I imagine those same
people would complain on the app store when something that could have been
tested in beta didn't work.

The whole point of a beta is to get help finding bugs in a private manner
from people who would know what to look for, not the general public or
students trying to use it in a class. It's supposed to be a community
effort to HELP ME put out a new platform app for FREE. Once on the app
store, it should basically *just work* otherwise it will be uninstalled
more quickly than the time it took to install it. Also, I was hoping that
people would also help me make cool demo scenes & patches, but that hasn't
happened either.

All of this is after I've spent probably 2 months of full time unpaid solo
work on PdParty in 2013. I could expect that people would in the very least
show interest in this project and help me work on it for when I will
basically put it out for free on the App Store.

<end rant>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Joe White <white.joe4 at gmail.com>
> To: Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>
> Cc: pd-list <pd-list at iem.at>, "IOhannes m zmölnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:02:26 +0000
> Subject: Re: [PD] RjDj/ScenePlayer for iOS?
> Hi IOhannes,
>
> Sorry I can't link directly to the right place but the user guide I linked
> to previously mentions there is support for what you're looking for.
>
> Search for #touch on this page
> https://github.com/danomatika/PdParty/blob/master/doc/PdParty_User_Guide.md
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
>
> On 3 March 2014 02:16, Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx> wrote:
>
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>> Hi IOhannes,
>>
>> On 03/03/14 02:20, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>> > On 02/28/2014 02:41 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>> >> PdDroidParty supports multitouch thanks to Muddu Kishan.
>> >
>> > i think i was unclear here: i know that PdDroidParty has
>> > multi-touch support (as shown in the demo).
>> >
>> > but what i really meant was: raw access to (multiple) pointer(s),
>> > like the "#touch" message in RdDj,
>>
>> No, PdDroidParty does not do that. Would be minimal to implement. If
>> someone submitted a patch to add that I would definitely merge it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>
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Dan Wilcox
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com
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