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

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

2016-02-15 18:23 GMT-02:00 Fred Jan Kraan <fjkraan at xs4all.nl>
>
> Most of cyclone are single objects files, as per pd-extended. The nettles
> part is a multi object library file. This seemed the simplest way to
> re-introduce them while avoiding the weird symbol issues. [declare] seemed
> more elegant than adding hexloader compliant object file names.
>

I'm sorry this is  still hard for me to get, so I need to keep asking
questions about what you mean. I guess I'm having a harder time
understanding what you mean by "adding hexloader compliant object file
names".

But I know this: I downlaoded zexy form deken and included it in the search
path of pd vanilla 0.46-7. I can now easily load an object like [>~]
without the need of the [hexloader] object, [declare] or anything.

There were also other given reasons, like this not being possible in a
particular OS, but that doesn't seem to be a problem.

So, simply put, it is possible... why couldn't we do this with cyclone? Or
is it quite possible but there is a choice not to do it?

Using declare is making it harder, so if there's a way to prevent it, I
strongly believe, as a Pd user that we should prevent it. In fact, I have
to confess that in 10 years of patching with Pd I had never needed to use
[declare], this is the first time I had to read its help file. I have also
written over 320 examples for my classes in Pd Extended and never had to
use it.

I find it really problematic that it seems you have to include flags, know
a weird name not related to "cyclone" and, worst of all, save and close
your patch to reopen and then be able to get the object you want. This is
really a bad choice over just being able to load the object without any of
this.

please let me know of any issues I'm still not getting

cheers

2016-02-15 20:21 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> On 2016-02-15 07:38 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
>
>> If you look in Pd source file x_arithmetic.c you will find this line:
>> binop2_gt_class = class_new(gensym(">"), (t_newmethod)binop2_gt_new, 0,
>>
>
> Well, by looking at the nettles.c code, we find the exact same structure
>
> sigeq_class = class_new(gensym("==~"),(t_newmethod)sigeq_new, 0,
>
> So cyclone is taking care of this problem in the same way!
>
> None of those names are legal file names on those systems.
>>
>
> Cool, so it's not a matter of one particular OS having an issue an not
> another, it's a general issue to all of them that have the workaround which
> is already done.
>
> Cyclone, when it's properly set up, will also register a bunch of symbols
>> when it starts, thereby avoiding file searches for illegal filenames.
>
>
> Yep, this is what I'm assuming, that you can make it work if you do the
> right thing. For example, I mentioned I downloaded a version of the zexy
> library that loads [>~] without the need of a [hexloader] object. I just
> put "zexy" in the search patch and [>~] loads quite easily.
>
>
>> If only part of cyclone is loaded, it may not have registered the weird
>> symbols, so they won't load
>
>
> These objects are not loaded, so only a part of cyclone is in fact loaded,
> I'm not sure why yet, it's kinda over my head. I'm having a hard time
> trying to figure it out the issues of needing to use [declare] and not
> loading this files beforehand.
>
> But I just believe you can have them load with no problem in any OS now,
> right?
>
> cheers
>
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