> pdlua and tclpd. coooolllllll......
> Pd: pyext for Python any chance for this in extended? there was some issue on the list about this a while ago no? but i have forgot. unless im just having a flashback. m On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> wrote: > > There are two new, easy ways to write objects for Pd: tclpd by Federico Ferri > and pdlua by Claude Heiland-Allen, Frank Barknecht and Martin Peach. Both > are now included in Pd-extended 0.43 and are automatically loaded at startup. > That means you can write a script in Lua or Tcl and have that script be a > true object in Pd. Both pdlua and tclpd provide the large majority of the Pd > externals API, and you can even write GUI objects using tclpd. > > Tcl and Lua both excel at handling strings, one thing that Pd is not the best > at, so if you have a project that needs to parse or manage a lot of strings, > then you have a new approach. > > There are some other ways of using other languages to write objects for Pd: > pyext for Python and pdj for Java. These two are different in a key way than > pdlua and tclpd. pyext and pdj allow you to load scripts into an object > called [pyext] or [pdj]. tclpd and pdlua let you create full Pd objects > that are completely transparent to the user. You create an object written in > tclpd or pdlua just like any other Pd object, and those objects can have > their own help patch too. > > Both pdlua and tclpd come with a lot of examples, go to the Help Browser and > find them in the list of libraries there. I also started writing the > 'tclfile' library to bring the Tcl file API to Pd: > > http://puredata.info/downloads/tclfile > > .hc > _______________________________________________ > Pd-announce mailing list > pd-annou...@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list -- ____________________ m.e.grimm | m.f.a | ed.m. megr...@gmail.com _________________________________ _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
