[PD] object substitution w/ gui plugin

[me.grimm]

ok got it... thanks for info!

yeah i was also thinking something like this might be useful for
abbreviations for example [mfn] creates [makefilename]

so looking here: https://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GUIPlugins

what would be the use of say "set sys_searchpath {}" or "set startup_flags
{}" which should be library level loading not GUI according to your logic
no? but then again it would load paths prior to user patching which seems
to make sense. Or might there be a difference between substitutions in
real-time while patching and initializing a path when a gui-plugin loads....

i am aware i am rambling at this point because i am just trying to
understand a little more of what IS possible with a gui-plug, what is not
possible, or what IS possible but is unnecessary.

a real world case scenario is class room situation (i am dealing with it
this semester) where at one point in the past I just made students install
pdx and we were all on the same page. it becomes difficult to troubleshoot
when each student has something slightly different going on. so my idea was
to have some kind of master gui-plug + class lib they  just drop in
~/Library/Pd and we all Rock & Roll to the same beat...

i believe deken (can we all agree this is awesome!) solves a number of
probs of this sort in the wake of pdx demise BUT it is only for libs NOT
for other standardizations that might make it easier to teach.... but then
again maybe object abbreviations or substitutions would just make more
complications.

cheers
m

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think it makes more sense to do those substitutions on the level of the
> library
> loading mechanism than in the GUI.
>
> In your example, what I would want is to put an abstraction called
> [repeat]
> in the same directory as my patch.  Inside my [repeat] abstraction I'd
> have
> a [num.repeat].  Then when I load the patch I would want Pd to load my
> abstraction instead of loading any external by the same name.  That's a
> much easier process because it doesn't require any changes to the original
> patch.
>
> Pd doesn't work that way currently, but IIUC it would work this way using
> IOhannes' recent revisions to the loader mechanism.
>
> For more complex cases maybe a massive search/replace is necessary, but
> I'd still prefer your sed/awk approach to massive search/replace in a
> running
> patch.  It's just way safer to substitute "foo" for "bar" when you know
> there
> aren't side effects like memory allocation of associated objects,
> binding-symbols, class search, socket traffic, GUI redrawing, maybe even
> forgetting that audio was running the whole time, etc.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
>
> On Sunday, November 1, 2015 5:10 PM, me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> say i have [repeat] in older patches but now i want to substitute this,
> for example, for my own [num.repeat] vanilla abstraction without changing
> original patch. can this be done with gui-plugin?
>
> i am noticing since moving from pdx that its quite a pain to replace once
> relied upon pdx objects with others that have same functions even with
> perl/sed scripts in tips_and_tricks.
>
> if ability to substitute directly with plugin then custom user libs could
> draw from only needed objects from pdx based patches i was thinking....
>
> cheers
> m
>
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