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

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

2016-02-20 20:53 GMT-02:00 Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>:

> One last question:
> Does Max/MSP retain all the same class interfaces for version 4/5 classes
> in later versions of Max/MSP?  For example, is Max 7 guaranteed to be
> backwards compatible with all the internal classes of Max 4.5?
>

Lets go as low as 4.6, version from the time of cyclone's release.

I, for one, haven't found any backwards compatibility issue yet. All I see
is objects respecting backwards compatibility and including a few new
features.

Examples: - maximum buffer allowed in buffir~ is now 4096 samples instead
of 256.

- [wave~] first offered no interpolation (0) or linear interpolation (1),
now offers 4 other interpolation methods (2-6)

I did search around, I haven't mapped all changes possible one by one, I
focused on important objects and found a few things, not much. I mean to
say it's probably not too crazy like them updating every object at every
new release. Most are still the same in Max 7 as they were in 4.6! I did
share all features to be included so objects could be updated, the number
it's like new features for 4 or 5 objects...

Now, when implementing new objects that were present in 4.6, one has no
good reason to go back to version 4.6 instead of checking Max 7 to clone
the new version without even bothering if it is different than before...

Don't know how many of the objects I suggested are also Max6+, pong might
be the very only one...

cheers
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