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 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. (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 a day) or that you licence can expire or that you will > have to redo this when you buy new hardware. > * no messing around with floats and ints. no mistakes because you forget > a dot (for example in [/ 10.]) that also includes that you can create > arithmetic operators without arguments. whereas in max the default is > integer. which means you cannot just type [/]. > * possibility to edit abstractions! in max you always have to open the > abstraction itself which is more than annoying. > * possibility to save your patch with an open subpatch window in the > front. (max thinks, you want to save the subpatch as a seperate new > patch...) > * no list object (ok, there is [zl reg]) > * no [t a b] > * as far as I know no settable sliders. (slider 200 will have a fixed > size and a fixed scale (0-199 - linear) (might be wrong with that). > * no keyboard shortcuts to create objects/messages (ctl+1...). there is > a max toolbox, but that does not work reliable. > unpack does not work for symbols in max. (but I am sure you can do that > somehow else) > diffs: two things that are different in max: [trigger 5 b] takes 5 as a > number and not as a selector. when you bang it, even when you feed in > another int, it will still output 5 and not zero as in pd. > messages also remember their last value that you sent through them, so > if you bang a message [$1 $2( it will spit out the last values and not > 0 0. (only at the beginning as default) > * max does not run on linux > > ... > > m. > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list