[PD] Data structures and click event
João Pais
jmmmpais at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 8 00:45:33 CET 2014
> On 03/05/2014 05:24 AM, Pierre Massat wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> First of all i'd like to say that i'm very impressed by the potential
>> of data structures in Pd. I've always kind of ignored this feature and
>> it's a >>pity because it's really worth diving into it.That being said
>> I think that help and example patches are far from sufficient for
>> beginners, and if it wasn't for Chris McCormick's s->>abstractions I
>> would have been able to really figure out how to use them (stuff like
>> how to make an entire polygon draggable, how to use >>GOP with proper
>> scaling, etc.).
>
> It's not just the documentation, it's the interface. Having to walk
> linked-lists of graphically unlinked objects is bad. Having to use
> boilerplate to find the >head of a glist just to create a scalar is bad.
>
> I think Pd-l2ork is getting close to a release with my new data
> structure stuff in it. It's a first step at addressing some of these
> issues.
and any prospects of that stuff making it into vanilla or pd-ext, for the
non-unix users out there?
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