[PD] object substitution w/ gui plugin

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Can you distribute GUI plugins over Deken?
-Jonathan 


     On Monday, November 2, 2015 10:56 AM, me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 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.
cheersm
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....
cheersm
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