Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-07 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 02:22 +0100, João Miguel Pais wrote: > >> - auto-setting size for objects? if you have a gate object with more > >> than 4 outputs (or any other object), you'll need to make some garbage > >> text or > > > > hmm; apart from the fact that [gate] does not exist as an obje

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-07 Thread João Miguel Pais
>> How about a list of things that are special, and could be put into pd >> to make it more special? > >> - all objects based on "invisible cords" (sends- and receive-based >> objects) could have a shortcut to its counterparts like in max. I >> personally avoid these kinds of objects as m

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
There is the GuiIdeas wiki page, for other things, feel free to add pages. .hc On Dec 7, 2007, at 6:21 AM, João Miguel Pais wrote: > How about a list of things that are special, and could be put into > pd to > make it more special? > > - "Find" should work with symbol-text strings. Pd has t

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-07 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
Hi IOhannes~ I think that João means that in Max/MSP you can somehow click on a send or receive object and automatically view the corresponding receive or send. I don't have Max so I don't know if this is accurate. It sounds awesome though! ~Kyle On Dec 7, 2007 10:50 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <[EM

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-07 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
hi João Miguel Pais wrote: > How about a list of things that are special, and could be put into pd to > make it more special? > > - all objects based on "invisible cords" (sends- and receive-based > objects) could have a shortcut to its counterparts like in max. I > personally avoid these

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-07 Thread João Miguel Pais
How about a list of things that are special, and could be put into pd to make it more special? - "Find" should work with symbol-text strings. Pd has the great feature of naming local variables with $0-xxx. But if I'm looking for all objects with $0-xx, or all ocurrences of $4 in a patch, tha

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-06 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Chris McCormick wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:45:41PM -0500, marius schebella wrote: > > In fact, Pd has such a free license that you can even fork it and make > your own closed-source commercial product out of it if you want. The > only requirement is that you include the license and copyri

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, marius schebella wrote: "find last error", even if this does not work all the time, it really helped me save a lot of time. Btw, "find last error" in DesireData works pretty much all of the time. In PureData, "find last error" relies on the good will of external (and inte

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-06 Thread Chris McCormick
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:45:41PM -0500, marius schebella wrote: > * no licencing: that means you don't pay money to be allowed to program > in pd. (the player is free also in max). but it also means that you > don't have to fiddle around with the licence when you install (which > usually takes

Re: [PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-06 Thread marius schebella
oh, forgot "find last error", even if this does not work all the time, it really helped me save a lot of time. plus "find" feature is also not implemented in max. marius. marius schebella wrote: > hi, > after all the complaining, here is a list of features that are special > to pd. > * open sour

[PD] pd and max (2)

2007-12-06 Thread marius schebella
hi, after all the complaining, here is a list of features that are special to pd. * open source: you can always dig into the deep universe of code to see how things are done. and change things according to your needs * no licencing: that means you don't pay money to be allowed to program in pd.