--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> wrote:
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> > Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com> > Cc: pd-list@iem.at > Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 4:05 PM > > On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > > > > > --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> > wrote: > > > >> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> > >> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch > Authors > >> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com> > >> Cc: pd-list@iem.at > >> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:00 AM > >> > >> It is Pd, so I think we should at least make an > effort to > >> make things easy to parse in Pd. I tried > your parser > >> using data that is probably closer to what we > might use, and > >> it didn't work at all. If someone > can get a > >> Pd parser working that can handle the commas well, > then I > >> would be OK using commas in the meta data format. > >> > >> Here's my data: > >> tags - pure data, frequency modulation, synthesis > > > > Hi Hans, > > I wouldn't expect my example > to work as a general solution. If you > > want a general solution, I'd be happy to take a stab > at it, but you > > haven't said what you want Pd to do with the data > example you've provided > > above. > > Ah, sorry, I thought you'd followed the object_db.tcl > plugin discussion and the [pd META] discussion with > Frank. Basically, the object_db.tcl plugin builds a > multilevel menu for finding objects based on tags. I'm > am sure people will think of other uses for the tags. > Frank suggested using comma separated tags in his [pd > REFERENCE] format, the PDDP group came to the conclusion > that the meta data should be easily parsable by Pd, and I > still think that's a good idea. > > So the idea is to have every help patch have a [pd META] > subpatch, and in it, have a comment with tags. > > .hc Oh, ok. I'll have a look at that discussion. -Jonathan _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list