[PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread brandon zeeb
According to [namecanvas] help, this object is obsolete? How else can one send a message to one and only one abstraction without using namecanvas? Is there the concept of 'this'? The example below will send a message to all patchname.pd abstractions, this is not what I think most require:

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-29 19:24, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Max wrote: why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? afaik arguments to those objects currently are ignored, but i do use them sometimes to make me

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-30 09:02, brandon zeeb wrote: According to [namecanvas] help, this object is obsolete? How else can one send a message to one and only one abstraction without using namecanvas? Is there the concept of 'this'? iemguts kind of introduces a concept of this. most of the objects work

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Max
Am 29.09.2010 um 19:24 schrieb Mathieu Bouchard: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Max wrote: why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? afaik arguments to those objects currently are ignored, but i do use them sometimes to make me

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread brandon zeeb
What I'm seeing here is basically there is no currently supported way in vanilla pd to adjust GOP properties for a particular abstraction (not globally)? If so, this is rather upsetting :( ~Brandon On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:11 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.atwrote: On 2010-09-30 09:02,

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-30 11:31, brandon zeeb wrote: What I'm seeing here is basically there is no currently supported way in vanilla pd to adjust GOP properties for a particular abstraction (not globally)? If so, this is rather upsetting :( no it's not. there is currently zero supported way to do

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-30 11:35, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: the same goes for [namecanvas]. for the sake of completeness: one of the earlier mails on the topic of obsoleted [namecanvas] can be found here: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2004-12/003419.html smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature? - Feature documentation

2010-09-30 Thread João Pais
i cannot remember exactly when the inlet-tooltio feature was introduced (i only remember that one implementation was done during the coding sprint at PdCon04; however i think that günter had an earlier implemenation lying around...ah searching the archives i find that günter has done an

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature? - Feature documentation

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-30 12:51, João Pais wrote: so this (whatever it is) has been there for 6 years, and no one knew of it? no. it has been posted on the list 7 years ago, so a lot of people new about it. it was discussed and re-implemented at pdcon 2004, and then posted to the patch-tracker; so even

[PD] Flexible Step Sequencers For Pd Vanilla

2010-09-30 Thread saint
Hi, Following the Pd Berlin meeting last Tuesday, the guys encouraged me to share my patches. Here are my step sequencers for Pd vanilla. With a bit of imagination they can be used for many things other than beat/drum patterns. In the example patches you can see one used as a metro to drive

Re: [PD] a really fast-to-read codec in linux?

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, palmieri, ricardo wrote: some tips to use hd videos under gridflow/gem? gridflow isn't much designed for very high speed processing needed by HD video. But note that although by default GridFlow uses grids that have lots of headroom in it (and thus 'waste' 3/4 of the

Re: [PD] pdpcap 0.0.4 network sniffer new version

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Jordi Sala wrote: PDPCAP 0.0.4 new features Could it be renamed so that it doesn't look like it's something to do with PDP ? (or is it PDP's fault for using non-distinctive naming ?) ___ | Mathieu

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, brandon zeeb wrote: According to [namecanvas] help, this object is obsolete?  How else can one send a message to one and only one abstraction without using namecanvas? I repeated this over and over for years, but Miller isn't listening. He won't listen to you either.

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: iirc, the reason for obsoleting [namecanvas] is that it allows the dynamic patching engine to get into an inconsistent (probably crashing) state (true, there are other things that allow this as well, without getting obsoleted). Especially, you

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, brandon zeeb wrote: What I'm seeing here is basically there is no currently supported way in vanilla pd to adjust GOP properties for a particular abstraction (not globally)?  If so, this is rather upsetting :( In Pd's dynamic patching you have to put up with Miller

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote: $1 $2 and $3 of [inlet~] and [outlet~] are already reserved for the resampling feature (specific to DSP). This feature was introduced a few years after the inlet-tooltip feature was introduced. you mean like a block~/switch~ object? never heard of those

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: On 2010-09-29 19:24, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: $1 $2 and $3 of [inlet~] and [outlet~] are already reserved for the resampling feature (specific to DSP). This feature was introduced a few years after the inlet-tooltip feature was introduced. quite

Re: [PD] Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: A canvas accepts a donecanvasdialog message that can be used to do what you want.  Search the list for that. There's also the coords message, which takes its arguments in a different order than donecanvasdialog and doesn't set the dirty flag for Pd

Re: [PD] Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, brandon zeeb wrote: Is there a way to dynamically adjust and enabled graph on parent (GOP)?  I'm building some UI sequencer widgets and it would be preferable to dynamically adjust the GOP size given user input, say number of steps in a step sequencer (ie: an 8x8 vs a

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-30 13:59, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: It's not a concept of this as brandon wants it because it's not a receive-symbol. In iemguts, what is being used is a number that is the number of canvases to be climbed up the hierarchy : so, to get from a subpatch of a subpatch of an

Re: [PD] pdpcap 0.0.4 network sniffer new version

2010-09-30 Thread Jordi Sala
Yes it can be renamed, I named pdpcap when I started the object (PD+PCAPlib)...,... pcap could be a good nameany suggestions? On 30 September 2010 13:45, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Jordi Sala wrote: PDPCAP 0.0.4 new features Could it be renamed so

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread brandon zeeb
Dynamic patching is one of the best thing PD has going for it. Without the ability to dynamically construct abstraction content, PD is an effort in extreme manual labor, and as a software developer, I disagree with the concept of manual labor. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Mathieu Bouchard

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread brandon zeeb
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2004-12/003428.html Essentially, being able to send a message to the current canvas in vanilla-pd without naming it, this in the current context is similar to the Java concept of this. If Miller wants to remove [namecanvas], just give us a this

Re: [PD] biquad equation for vcf~?

2010-09-30 Thread brandon zeeb
You might also find this file helpful, a kind of filter bible: http://www.musicdsp.org/files/Audio-EQ-Cookbook.txt On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:29 AM, cyrille henry c...@chnry.net wrote: hello, you have some exter to compute biquad~ coef in ggee/filter repertory. i also made some abstraction to

[PD] video player GEM pix_movie/film

2010-09-30 Thread Gintaras Lau.
Hello, I want to run video player with pure data GEM pix_film or pix_movie and play mpeg DVD quality files or higher possible full screen. I have Ubuntu 10.04 on a D945GSEJT board with atom N270 processor (http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D945GSEJT-Mini-ITX-Motherboard) an pure data installed. All

[PD] [PD-announce] (Deadline extended) CFP Ircam Musical Research Residency 2011-2012

2010-09-30 Thread Arshia Cont
(Apologies for cross-postings) (French version below) Deadline extended: October 8th (midnight Paris time) Call for Projects 2011-2012: Musical Research Residency Program Submission Deadline:October 8th, 2010 Details and submission procedure: http://www.ircam.fr/875.html?L=1 The musical

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, brandon zeeb wrote: If Miller wants to remove [namecanvas], just give us a this expression!  What about $! ? What would be the type of $! ? I don't think that there is any atom-type for supporting the feature that you suggest. see also

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread brandon zeeb
Sorry, that last example should read: [clear( | | [s $!] On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:42 PM, brandon zeeb zeeb.bran...@gmail.comwrote: In my happy world, one could perform the following: [coords 0 -1 1 1 80 90 1 100 100;( | | [s $!] With the example above, one could perform canvas

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread brandon zeeb
In my happy world, one could perform the following: [coords 0 -1 1 1 80 90 1 100 100;( | | [s $!] With the example above, one could perform canvas operations on the current canvas, ie: this. So to answer your question, $! would be the equivalent to whatever name you supplied in [namecanvas], so

Re: [PD] video player GEM pix_movie/film

2010-09-30 Thread pierre
Please help me to find out what might be a solution for Linux OS, Pure Data, GEM on a mentioned board to screen DVD or higher quality video data. Which codec do you use for that ? have you tried to encode your video files using the mjpeg codec ? p.

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Pedro Lopes wrote: About: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1056914group_id=55736atid=478072 I did not get exactly what this feature was about, I read the comments and overall description, but something slipped, could you enlighten? It's the same

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Pedro Lopes
tooltips is the name for transient text that appears over a GUI to help the user (as a reminder, for example). It usually is triggered by mouse-over. Thanks for the enlightenment Mathieu :) http://artengine.ca/desiredata/gallery/find_last_error.png Very nice.

[PD] markov chains?

2010-09-30 Thread L.J.
looking for implementations of markov chains i found http://footils.org/cms/weblog/2009/may/23/markov-chains-pure-data/ but the page seems to be gone? can anybody point me to some simple markov patches? appreciated ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list

Re: [PD] How to make a buzz? (I'm no king bee)

2010-09-30 Thread Pierre Massat
It doesn't seem to output a steady pulse either (see attached patch - then again i hope i got you). Maybe it doesn't really matter. I can try with my guitar right now. Out of curiosity, what kind of resonator can i use? I only know resonant filters (like the moog~ bp filter) and karplus-strong

Re: [PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-30 19:42, brandon zeeb wrote: Sorry, that last example should read: [clear( | | [s $!] you can do this with iemguts. true, this is not vanilla. but one of the strengths of Pd is, that you can do a lot with externals. so why should you refuse to use them? fgmasdr IOhannes

Re: [PD] How to make a buzz? (I'm no king bee)

2010-09-30 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:00:05 +0200 Pierre Massat pimas...@gmail.com wrote: Out of curiosity, what kind of resonator can i use? I only know resonant filters (like the moog~ bp filter) and karplus-strong resonators. The KS ( a single tap feedback delay ). Again, small block size needed if you

Re: [PD] markov chains?

2010-09-30 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
On 30/09/10 19:45, L.J. wrote: looking for implementations of markov chains i found http://footils.org/cms/weblog/2009/may/23/markov-chains-pure-data/ but the page seems to be gone? can anybody point me to some simple markov patches? There's one in the documentation but that method would

Re: [PD] markov chains?

2010-09-30 Thread George Ker
Yes, I remember that post :/ There is a simple example in the Help browser: 0_Pd/2.control.examples/21.markov.chain.pd On 30 September 2010 21:45, L.J. potaxpo...@gmail.com wrote: looking for implementations of markov chains i found

Re: [PD] pdpcap 0.0.4 network sniffer new version

2010-09-30 Thread Jordi Sala
I was going to change the name to pdpcap, but it would be very confused to have the same name that the pcaplib, that use pcap.. so, the name could be pktcap? I will expect until next week if there is any suggestion ... On 30 September 2010 22:16, ALAN BROOKER alan.brooker2...@gmail.com wrote:

[PD] PD on Gumstix - Duplex Audio Problems

2010-09-30 Thread Sam Ferguson
Hi PDers- I have compiled PD (not PDa) for use on Gumstix overo, but I'm having a couple of problems getting full duplex audio. I can do either in or out ok (eg. -noadc), but asking for in and out gives: /dev/dsp invalid argument read/write and then switches to out only. I can do audio