[PD] emojis in Pd?

Kylee Kennedy kmkennedy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 23:25:00 CEST 2020


Fun!
The look is more uniform with pd gui on my Windows 10 pc.

Kylee

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:07 PM Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
wrote:

> screenshot of the patch I sent.
>
>
> [image: Screen Shot 2020-07-10 at 18.04.38.png]
>
> Em sex., 10 de jul. de 2020 às 18:00, Alexandre Torres Porres <
> porres at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Hi, this discussion came up in the facebook group. I was asking people
>> that use other alphabets how they work with it and how Pd handles it.
>> Mostly cause I'm working on cyclone/comment and then people asked me if it
>> could support emojis too.
>>
>> My understanding is that cyclone's comment can do anything, so we tested
>> a bit and saw that Pd Vanilla can actually support some emojis, but not
>> all.
>>
>> Now, not that I'm particularly interested in this feature and would like
>> it to be natively supported in Pd (though yeah, lots of facebook people
>> were excited about it), nonetheless, I have lots of questions and would
>> like to better understand this. Perhaps if not natively in Pd Vanilla
>> itself, one could think about providing an external that fully handles it?
>> But how?
>>
>> Or maybe, since something is already happening (some emojis work, others
>> don't), we could look why it happens, and maybe open a door for full
>> support. And you know, macOS gives the option of emojis as part of the edit
>> menu of Pd! Not sure how windows and linux deal with it...
>>
>> Now, why bother with emojis? I know... seems silly... but other than
>> smiley faces, piles of poo and vomiting, there are some icons that can be
>> useful, like ⏸⏯⏹⏺⏭⏮⏩⏪⏫⏬◀️!!!! These, by the way, are icons that I got
>> working in Pd vanilla on my macOS. And there are also others like math
>> symbols (≥ works too, that's nice!), stuff like arrows ("➜" works too!
>> Seems useful). I couldn't get smiley faces in the patch though 😣
>>
>> By the way, here's a test patch, see if it works for you (also attached)
>>
>> ==============================
>>
>> #N canvas 176 60 1325 741 36;
>> #X msg 336 52 set ⏸⏯⏹⏺⏭⏮⏩⏪⏫⏬◀️, f 22;
>> #X obj 336 134 cyclone/comment 0 80 dejavu\ sans\ mono empty 0 255
>> 0 0 0 255 0 255 1 0 ⏸⏯⏹⏺⏭⏮⏩⏪⏫⏬◀️;
>> #X text 95 133 cyclone's comment =>, f 10;
>> #X text 287 304 pd's comment => ⏸⏯⏹⏺⏭⏮⏩⏪⏫⏬◀️
>> ;
>> #X msg 822 431 label ⏯, f 10;
>> #X obj 823 519 s cnv;
>> #X obj 630 412 bng 95 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144
>> -1 -1;
>> #X obj 630 412 cnv 15 95 95 empty cnv ⏯ 3 54 0 90 -233017 -66577
>> 0;
>> #X obj 630 535 bng 95 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144
>> -1 -1;
>> #X obj 213 460 send ⏯, f 7;
>> #X obj 209 521 receive ⏯, f 10;
>> #X floatatom 219 399 5 0 0 0 - - -;
>> #X floatatom 231 591 5 0 0 0 - - -;
>> #X text 490 431 [cnv]:;
>> #X connect 0 0 1 0;
>> #X connect 4 0 5 0;
>> #X connect 6 0 8 0;
>> #X connect 10 0 12 0;
>> #X connect 11 0 9 0;
>>
>>
>>
>>
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