Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 10:58 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2011-11-17 à 15:18:00, Roman Haefeli a écrit : Matju directed me to the respective parts in the source code, but I was not able to make any sense out of it. I said something wrong near the end because I spoke too quick.

[PD] emulate mouse click with msg

2011-11-18 Thread Joe Newlin
I'm experimenting with dynamic patch creation and GEM and I would like to be able to send a draw line message to objects in thousands of subpatches. I came across this, which mentions sending a click message, apparently to coordinates within the subpatch:

Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread Charles Goyard
Hi, Roman Haefeli wrote: (and finally, what _is_ the GUI refresh rate)? remember you're anyway limited by your monitor refresh rate. Something usually between 50fps to 100fps. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

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Re: [PD] Troubles running Pd-0.43.1test5 on Windows XP

2011-11-18 Thread rolf meesters
trying to install on XP Pro, following the 'new' method from the install.txt. however autogen.sh is not in Cygwin. searches seem to point to Guile as the culprit. i'm not versed enough to understand the finesses of this discussion, but, does it mean to forget about the 'new' install method for

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
This is more like iemguts: properties of abstractions. Jonathan's proposal includes that, but also global things. IMHO, iemguts is the most Pd-ish because its a library of simple objects rather than a single absattr mega-object with attributes (Max/MSP style) or messages via send/receive.

Re: [PD] Troubles running Pd-0.43.1test5 on Windows XP

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
You need to include the ./ since it is a local script like ./configure. So its: ./autogen.sh ./configure make .hc On Nov 18, 2011, at 10:07 AM, rolf meesters wrote: trying to install on XP Pro, following the 'new' method from the install.txt. however autogen.sh is not in Cygwin.

Re: [PD] send pd-console output to terminal in osx

2011-11-18 Thread olsen
it worked out - merci mille! ø On 11/17/2011 06:51 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd -stderr | pdsend /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd-extended is just the GUI .hc On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Matthias Kronlachner

Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 09:34:00, Roman Haefeli a écrit : Ah.. I was actually looking for the number 14112000, but of course I didn't look for 32. * 441000. But then, 14112000 / 5000 gives 2822.4 Hz, which would be a too high rate for GUI refresh. So, what is relation between the tick and 5000 that

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at To: Thomas Grill g...@g.org Cc: pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [PD] get method for Pd This is more

Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread Miller Puckette
There's no fixed update rate, but Mahieu is right, Pd polls for the ability to make an update every DSP tick. (one is able to do an update if the socket from Pd to GUI is writable, i.e., not full). I've thought for a long time about putting an explicit throttle (on the order of 5-10 msec) or a

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-17 à 10:42:00, Miller Puckette a écrit : This leads to an interesting larger design issue. I've so far resisted the idea of using send/receive as a back channel for getting return values because of the unreadablity of the resulting patch. It doesn't have to be written as such in

Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread András Murányi
Lame question: Would user-settable GUI refresh rate help with speed problems or with audio dropouts that some people experience? Or do these depend on the amount of data transmitted and not on the update frequency? Andras On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 18:41, Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu wrote:

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 10:16:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : This is more like iemguts: properties of abstractions. Jonathan's proposal includes that, but also global things. IMHO, iemguts is the most Pd-ish because its a library of simple objects rather than a single absattr mega-object with

Re: [PD] emulate mouse click with msg

2011-11-18 Thread Joe Newlin
Nevermind! The solution was obvious: create a receive object in each subpatch send the draw message to all of them at once after they are created. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Joe Newlin jtnew...@gmail.com wrote: I'm experimenting with dynamic patch creation and GEM and I would like to be

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-17 à 21:17:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : The last sentence is the key there. They should not all do these things in their own disparate ways. If the objects stick to common, well-established idioms, then all these objects will be easy use. Just imagine the help patch of

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: This is more like iemguts: properties of abstractions. Jonathan's proposal includes that, but also global things. IMHO, iemguts is the most Pd-ish because its a library of simple objects rather than a single absattr mega-object with

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Miller Puckette
I'm with Hans -- e.g., 'list' where there's a whole slew of functionalities masquerading as a single class (and sharing a help file), but in which you only need one object for each type of use, e.g., list nth. cheers M On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 01:23:12PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 18, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2011-11-17 à 21:17:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : The last sentence is the key there. They should not all do these things in their own disparate ways. If the objects stick to common, well-established idioms, then all these

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-17 à 14:40:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : efficient but extremely weird and difficult to read (just have a look at the innards of [listabs/list-drip] for example). BTW, the one nowadays in listabs is the simplest of the fast [list-drip] implementations. The faster ones are more

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 14:00:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : I guess you haven't seen the all_about_ patches, you can have one of those for the unified overview. Then have each object's help patch link to this. Bingo ! Now you need to write every piece of documentation twice : once in each

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 18, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2011-11-18 à 10:16:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : This is more like iemguts: properties of abstractions. Jonathan's proposal includes that, but also global things. IMHO, iemguts is the most Pd-ish because its a library of

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2011-11-18 à 14:00:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : I guess you haven't seen the all_about_ patches, you can have one of those for the unified overview. Then have each object's help patch link to this. Bingo ! Now you need to

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca To: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at Cc: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com; pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 2:06

[PD] [GEM] in os x 10.7?

2011-11-18 Thread Jaime Oliver
Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone had been able to compile and run (stable) the latest GEM in OS X 10.7? best, J -- Jaime E Oliver LR jo2...@columbia.edu www.jaimeoliver.pe 858 750 0924 (cel) ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
One thing that would be very nice is if pd-gui checked the OS for the current screen refresh rate, and then used that as the clock for refreshing the GUI. Seems quite feasible to me. But actually, now that I think about it, I am sure that any decent GUI toolkit does this already, so really

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: Thomas Grill g...@g.org; pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 1:33 PM

Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread Roman Haefeli
Hi Thanks to Charles, Matju and Miller for your answers. It's somewhat clearer now how those things are working together. In the meanwhile, I made some test. I figured I'd probably be able to determine the refresh rate myself with the help of the nyquist theorem. I made a patch that lets the

Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 18:53 +0100, András Murányi wrote: Lame question: Would user-settable GUI refresh rate help with speed problems or with audio dropouts that some people experience? Or do these depend on the amount of data transmitted and not on the update frequency? I _think_ this depends

Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Roman Haefeli reduz...@gmail.com To: pd-list@iem.at Cc: Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [PD] pd-gui update rate On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 18:53 +0100, András Murányi wrote: Lame question: Would user-settable GUI refresh rate help

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: - Original Message - From: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: Thomas Grill g...@g.org; pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; IOhannes m zmoelnig

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: Thomas Grill g...@g.org; pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:34 PM

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 14:20:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : Obviously, there are objects that are too simple just as there are objects that are too complex. ok. One thing that I think is a valuable goal is making objects that do their thing only using the core atom types as input: bang,

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2011-11-18 à 14:20:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : Obviously, there are objects that are too simple just as there are objects that are too complex. ok. One thing that I think is a valuable goal is making objects that do their

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 12:44:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : Name another object in the history of Pd that (purposefully) does that. http://gridflow.ca/help/gf/selector-help.html __ | Mathieu BOUCHARD - téléphone :

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-17 à 22:24:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : You think that ~2300 words is not particularly large for a help file? That's now long Tcl's info help is. I don't think any Pd help patch has anywhere close to 2300 words. wc -w #convolve-help.pd says 3086, but counting only the

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at; pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; Thomas Grill g...@g.org; IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Sent:

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca To: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at Cc: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com; pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 4:31

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 11:37:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : Please use telepathy to let me know the places where I have the same material in the object help and pasted it to all_about_*. I'm not even talking about the existing ones. However I should warn you that I will travel to the past to make

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 13:43:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca I don't think that 2300 words (or 3600 words for more recent docs) is that large. A hardcopy of a successful book such as Tolstoï's War and Peace has 56 words and doesn't even come with a Ctrl+f

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: This is more like iemguts: properties of abstractions. Jonathan's proposal includes that, but also global things. IMHO,

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 16:02:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : I don't really see what you mean in canvasargs. [+] behaves differently when given a bang or a list. Bang outputs the current result again, and a list of two numbers sets two new values to add and outputs the result. Read it as « a

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 18, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2011-11-18 à 16:02:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : I don't really see what you mean in canvasargs. [+] behaves differently when given a bang or a list. Bang outputs the current result again, and a list of two numbers sets two

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 13:42:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : So-- name two!* Any grid-processing inlet does distinguish between float and list, though the object they're on might not always use the difference. But that's not the same as making a difference between bang and list, which is more rare.

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 16:57:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : On Nov 18, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Read it as « a bang or an empty list ». The bang is cast to an empty-list in a context where a list-method is defined but a bang-method isn't. Hmm, I think it really the opposite,

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at; pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; Thomas Grill g...@g.org; IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Sent:

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-11-18 à 14:22:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : - Original Message - From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca   http://gridflow.ca/help/route2-help.html   http://gridflow.ca/help/route3-help.html So I just named two more. What are the contexts where you have used either of these

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
So here is two quick sketches of ideas for objects related to this: [coords] and [canvasvisible]. coords you can already get from iemguts, and I'm planning on submitting [canvasvisible] for inclusion in iemguts. https://github.com/pd-projects/info .hc

Re: [PD] get method for Pd

2011-11-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: Thomas Grill g...@g.org; pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at; Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu; IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 7:19 PM