i'd love to see pd going this direction and use it with friends. processing is a pretty good candidate imo. on osx i could get it to start and open a patch unfortunately not in -nogui mode
i do not understand enough what's possible, but it would be crazy if one could use Pd with titanium, which is the opensource cousin of adobe air. http://titaniumapp.com/ eni (just keeping this topic alive :) ) Miller Puckette wrote: > I can imagine simply writing an example program to do this (putting some > boilerplate first and then a rewritable main at the end). It would > look more like this: > > /* don't touch me */ > .... > /* but replace the following with your code */ > > main() > { > pd_startthread("arg1 arg2..."); > /* do anything you want */ > pd_send("foo bang;"); > /* etc */ > pd_endthread(); > } > > ... the idea would be that pd itself would live in a subthread and you'd > be able to send messages to it and even somehow get return callbacks. > This wouldn't be like pd~ at all, since in this scenario Pd would open > audio and MIDI as needed and schedule itself (with pd~ the subprocess > slaves itself synchronously to the parent). Another restriction would > be that you could only have one Pd thread (it isn't thread-safe!). On > the other hand, this would work fine in Windows, which pd~ doesn't (since > windows appears not to offer pipes unless you add a library with funny > licensing restrictions.) > > Would that be a useful thing to have? > > cheers > Miller > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:28:22AM +0000, Andy Farnell wrote: >> >> Yes! Even if it's already 'doable' having a clearly >> abstracted libPd with documented API is clearly the next >> step in Pure Data development. This should be an overriding >> consideration in all current dev directions. >> >> >> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:07:04 +0900 >> Chris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:05:16AM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: >>>> Zach Dwiel wrote: >>>>> Hello >>>> first of all, there is no official API. >>> It would be so nice if there were an easy way to invoke Pd as a library >>> from within other code. I know it's possible to do this (Spore, pd~, >>> RjDj, Pd browser plugin), it's just that it requires writing a bunch of >>> non-trivial support code that must be re-written every time. It >>> shouldn't have to. Pd -nogui could and should be as easily invokeable as >>> any other library. >>> >>> For example, I just wish it was possible to go: >>> >>> #include <pd.h> >>> >>> *PDInstance pd = make_pd_instance(); >>> pd->init(/* ..args.. */); >>> >>> while (1) >>> { >>> /* Do stuff here */ >>> pd->schedloop(); >>> /* Do other stuff here */ >>> pd->sendMessage(";my-receiver bang;"); >>> } >>> >>> Ok maybe not quite as easy as that, but I reckon you'd see Pd used as >>> the audio engine for loads of other apps and games if this was simple. >>> There has already been interest from e.g. the Blender project and the >>> several other apps that already embed Pd. >>> >>> If this is already easy and I have just missed something obvious, please >>> let me know. (Sorry for not contributing code.) >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ------------------- >>> http://mccormick.cx >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pd-list@iem.at mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> -- >> Use the source >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list