[PD] Prototype for adding an object browser into Pd Vanilla's core

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Am 10. März 2023 10:34:52 MEZ schrieb Pierre Alexandre Tremblay <tremblap at gmail.com>:
>Great idea Alexandre
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>Loads of wisdom, IOhannes
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>The one bit that stick with me is this:
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>> but as long as it requires manually maintaining a database of any change in the objects, i strongly believe that the architecture ought to be reconsidered.
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>Even if it stays as a plugin/extension/whatever, having a call to the pd api to list all content of registered/loaded/downloaded externals would be great. Then adding a category to the Decken distribution and there is a taxonomy that is programmatic and everyone can join in…


Actually there is (was?) such parsable information embedded in help-patches and the <library>-meta.pd files (btw this parsable info is the raison d'etre for the meta files).
That was proposed about 15 years ago...


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