[PD] Nettles. Was: Cyclone: List of Issues with existing objects by Alexandre Porres

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 17:37:53 CET 2016


> hat's why you need to introduce another external
> "hexloader", and make sure it always loads first.

but why don't I need this when I load the cyclone externals?

2016-02-14 14:31 GMT-02:00 Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at
>:

> Pd namespaces and the Pd loading mechanism are too complex to change
> without a spec for both the current and proposed system.
>
> Problems of not thinking ahead: unnecessary code duplication
> like flatspace, replacing one problem with another like one-class-per-file
> libdir, the whole svn personal-cloud-workspace-as-a-library deal in the
> first place, and so on...
>
> For example: the one-clas-per-file-libdir is the reason you can't easily
> have
> externals with names like "<~" and ">~".  Internal classes are loaded by
> default from files that have alphanumeric names, so there it isn't a
> problem.  That's why
> you need to introduce another external "hexloader", and make sure it
> always
> loads first.  (Plus the new bother of mapping hex values to ASCII
> characters in
> file names, and remembering how to read those names.)
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
> On Sunday, February 14, 2016 10:52 AM, Ivica Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>
> What I am also trying to do eventually in pd-l2ork is weed out redundant
> objects and only keep the ones that do the said task the best while still
> supporting other objects' idiosyncrasies (if any). There is absolutely no
> reason to have multiple objects of the same kind. Ultimately, one could
> keep all the externals in the same folder and completely do away with all
> the declares, imports, and other things that make learning pd unnecessarily
> harder.
> --
> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
> Associate Professor
> Computer Music
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> Virginia Tech
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> ico at vt.edu
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> On Feb 14, 2016 8:40 AM, "Fred Jan Kraan" <fjkraan at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> guess some of it is in:
> http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/digaud/puredata/cyclone/cycloneToDo.html
>
>
> This list is also becoming a list of what has been done.
>
>
> As with _nettles_
>
> "try to resurrect as independent object library"
>
> Anyway, tell me if this gets includes on this file.
>
>
> Yes, the nettles-objects are part of the latest cyclone versions. They are
> part of the nettles library, which can be loaded with [declare]. Not all
> operating systems like the '<' and '>' in the object names and there is
> overlap with other library objects, so only loading them when needed is
> cleaner.
>
>
> cheers
>
> ps. count me in for help with the help files
>
>
> Great!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Fred Jan
>
>
> 2016-02-11 22:18 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com
> <mailto:porres at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Howdy, it's a known fact brazilians will start the year only after
>     carnival, so here I am.
>
>     I'd like to share my list of things to do with existing Cyclone
>     Objetcs. Obviously there might be other issues with other objects
>     that would make them up to date with the current version of Max (Max
>     7). Nonetheless, this is what I find relevant, and I've been really
>     checking it through.
>
>     It's only about 11 objects, some has already been discussed here and
>     might have been fixed or in the process to be taken care of, forgive
>     me if so.
>
>     I have it attached and also as a link to a google doc
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L_dUNgznfhaZHPKMJ3jJ_p9uIXRVP6Rs9-3nXy2Qlk8/edit?usp=sharing
>
>     Next, I will get together a list of new objects I think should be
>     included, many of which I've already made as abstractions (kind of
>     to show how it works like I did with [teeth~], cause I really think
>     they should all be done as externals).
>
>     Cheers
>
>
>
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