On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 15:04 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > On 2013-06-29 15:43, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > I don't know any solution off-hand and I also don't know whether Pd > > was designed with the possibility in mind to read patches with > > [textfile]. I just want to have it mentioned. And yes, it does > > break some of my patches (not that this would be a reason not go > > forward and change Pd's file format). > > since my personal preferences for those "," appendices to objects go > into the direction of using them for messages that the object itself > can understand(e.g. > #X obj 100 100 readsf~, open foo.wav;
Those uses would not interfere with each other as your example would actually read: #X obj 100 100 readsf~\, open foo.wav; (mind the backslash)[1]. Also, the escaped commas do not cause any troubles for Pd file parsing. It's only the new non-escaped commas that do. > ) i'd rather vote for keeping "meta"-messages (e.g. those that tell > the GUI-renderer which color the object should have) separate. > > e.g. > #X obj 100 100 readsf~; > #G width 10; Yeah, why not? This wouldn't break anything, at least. > oh btw, i really don't see a reason to use cryptic 'f' selectors, when > we could use meaningful names like "width". Agreed. What is Miller's stance on this? Roman _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
