Re: [PD] general questions on externals

2007-12-10 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
altern wrote: hi The uni i am collaborating with has an engineer that did a image analisys tool on C couple of years ago. Now they want to port parts of it to PD creating an external. The engineer that does the job is checking the documentation about externals but he was getting some

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Thomas Grill wrote: There must be other externals using proxy inlets, probably zexy or other iem-based stuff. right: e.g. zexy's [mulitplex] (aka [mux]) uses proxy-inlets. there are 2 reasons why it is not in the externals-howto: #1 it would have complicated the howto needlessly #2 when i

Re: [PD] xml-rpc client

2007-12-10 Thread Georg Holzmann
Hallo! Thanks I looked at that but it wasn't clear to me how I could connect to an external server such as http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/api.sample.php with this. Do I need to run a python script along with the patch? Is there a help file some where? Well, there is an help pach: look in

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Jamie Bullock
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 21:47 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Jamie Bullock wrote: Then I persuaded him that passing the queries as a list to the inlet would be more flexible. It also greatly reduces the number of objects required to send a query, if you have more than

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Jamie Bullock
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 16:47 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: The addcomma, addsemi, adddollar messages are a workaround, for sure, but yeah, I suppose a more pd-ish one. I think that if SQL gets submitted only on the right/cold inlet, then we would not need those messages. They

Re: [PD] general questions on externals

2007-12-10 Thread Yvan Vander Sanden
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 09:27 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: altern wrote: hi The uni i am collaborating with has an engineer that did a image analisys tool on C couple of years ago. Now they want to port parts of it to PD creating an external. The engineer that does the job is

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Thomas Grill hat gesagt: // Thomas Grill wrote: it's unfortunate that you are not thrilled using flext. Since flext uses the PD api to get lists or other messages into secondary inlets there's nothing to stop you from doing the same in psql. The magic words are proxy objects which

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Thomas Grill
Frank Barknecht schrieb: But as everyone knows that I don't really understand why a DB external has to be a C/C++ external, I'll better be quiet now. ;) Right. Over and out gr~~~ ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] array indirection

2007-12-10 Thread Jean-Yves GRATIUS
Hi, I have tried to change graph-on-parents settings by message for displaying different arrays, it seems to work.. I did'nt test it with large tables. (included patch : switchingGOPtables.pd). Jean Yves Gratius http://jy.gratius.free.fr Chuckk Hubbard a crit : On Dec 9, 2007 10:50

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Thomas Grill
Mike McGonagle schrieb: On 12/9/07, *Thomas Grill* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike McGonagle schrieb: I know and it has been on my todo list for a long time. The point is that it hasn't made it to the top of this list since i don't need it. On the

Re: [PD] RIP Stockhausen

2007-12-10 Thread eric labelle
Thanks for posting this Chris...it is quite a loss. 2007/12/10, Chris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I haven't seen anyone post on the list about this, so I thought I'd mention it. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/08/arts/music/08stockhausen-1.html?_r=1ref=obituariesoref=slogin Best,

Re: [PD] RIP Stockhausen

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Farnell
Sad news, This is worth reading and it ties into recent discussions on this list. http://www.music.princeton.edu/~ckk/smmt/scientific.commentary.2.html Of course he will always be remembered as an avant garde composer, but much of Stockhausens greatness is missed by artists who saw him as a

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding (fwd)

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 9, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 20:23:16 -0500 (EST) From: Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike McGonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Mike

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 9, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I'm not a big fan of [expr]'s syntax since it is custom syntax that is not used anywhere else in Pd. A precedent has to start somewhere :) I believe that the goal is to make an

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Thomas Grill wrote: Frank Barknecht schrieb: But as everyone knows that I don't really understand why a DB external has to be a C/C++ external, I'll better be quiet now. ;) Right. Over and out Basically, only C and Pd externals have proven easy to manage.

[PD] again, the pdcon in brazil issue

2007-12-10 Thread PORRES
So guys, I will get back to you after the 18th, when we`ll have a meeting here, then I will have some stuff to say... I am about to move to Sao Paulo and maybe get into the doctorate at the State University of sao Paulo, which is interested in sediating and supporting the event. Any great

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On Dec 10, 2007 2:40 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Grill wrote: There must be other externals using proxy inlets, probably zexy or other iem-based stuff. right: e.g. zexy's [mulitplex] (aka [mux]) uses proxy-inlets. there are 2 reasons why it is not in the

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:47 AM, Thomas Grill wrote: Mike McGonagle schrieb: On 12/9/07, *Thomas Grill* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike McGonagle schrieb: I know and it has been on my todo list for a long time. The point is that it hasn't made it to

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On Dec 10, 2007 3:21 AM, Jamie Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 21:47 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Jamie Bullock wrote: Then I persuaded him that passing the queries as a list to the inlet would be more flexible. It also greatly reduces the

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 9, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: Well, this is not something that is within reach of many people. We need to understand not just PD's internals, but how flext uses them, and we also need to know how to integrate these things

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
Hans, I still have yet to learn about the WIKI stuff, but I posted a Inlet Proxy example on my page ( http://puredata.info/Members/mjmogo ). I don't know if you want to just put a link, or move the file to the Proxy page you created, either way works for me. Thanks, Mike On Dec 10, 2007 10:05

[PD] Inlet Proxy object example

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
Hello everyone, Over the weekend, I was given a huge lesson in both PD and humility... Anyway, what this is is an example of how to create an inlet proxy object to handle arbitrary list input on a cold right inlet. It is something that was extracted from the 'x_list.c' source, and generalized to

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Thomas Grill wrote: Frank Barknecht schrieb: But as everyone knows that I don't really understand why a DB external has to be a C/C++ external, I'll better be quiet now. ;)

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:21 AM, Jamie Bullock wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 21:47 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Jamie Bullock wrote: Then I persuaded him that passing the queries as a list to the inlet would be more flexible. It also greatly reduces the number of objects

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Thomas Grill wrote: Frank Barknecht schrieb: But as everyone knows that I don't really understand why a DB external has to be a C/C++ external, I'll better

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Too often reducing effort is equated with typing shortcuts and things along that line. I think putting everything into the [psql] object box is version of this. Things are a bigger concerns in the push to reduce effort are: - reducing bugs!

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jamie Bullock wrote: The way you are suggesting always requires at least 2 objects per query: an object to build the query and a message to send it. I assumed that there would always be one variable part per query, so that there's always a float or symbol or list coming

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Claude Heiland-Allen hat gesagt: // Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: Not quite as easy as abstractions - you still have to restart Pd. Well, yes. But still the lua loader allows users to get the same power as developers have without the need to learn and setup all the stuff that's required to

[PD] OT more pd muzik segmentation fault !!!

2007-12-10 Thread xm
hi list ! more pd muzik drum n' drones nvisible.taz features segmentation fault programming and muzik noish~+daax! enjoy :P :: ..: ::: ::: :: :. ... . :: :: . : : :. : . . : . :: /*segmentation fault*/* *is a research xperimental audio-software project, based on the fusion of

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: Could someone please explain that IMPORTANCE of worrying about SQL injection? Just how would it effect users of PD? We don't know what pd users will do with [psql]. Do you? _ _ __ ___ _ _ _ ... | Mathieu

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding (fwd)

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:52:25 -0500 (EST) From: Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike McGonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: While I think I understand what you are

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Jamie Bullock
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:18 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: This almost *never* happens. As long as what you do in Pd is regular read-write activities involving tables that contain data that you only want to see a small part of at a time, you need variable atoms in almost any query:

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On 12/10/07, Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: Could someone please explain that IMPORTANCE of worrying about SQL injection? Just how would it effect users of PD? We don't know what pd users will do with [psql]. Do you? I guess what I

[PD] Fwd: [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mike McGonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 10, 2007 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/10/07, Jamie Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point! I think Hans' recent suggestion addresses the problem.

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Jamie Bullock
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 09:55 -0600, Mike McGonagle wrote: Well, Jamie, at the same time, I think that Mathieu might be refering how the output is handled from the 'sql' external. That is the part that would make having just a single instance of a database object difficult at best to work

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On 12/10/07, Jamie Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PREPARE uses the '$' character as its placeholder identifier, and '$1' Jamie, after thinking about this, I don't think we should worry about the specifics of the characters that we use, as long as we can agree on what gets entered into a PD

Re: [PD] array indirection

2007-12-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Well-done, that looks like the perfect solution. I did notice these functions mentioned in the code, with xmargin and ymargin as arguments of a longer function call, but I hadn't followed up to see what else went in the message. I believe this is your answer, Phil. Another one for msg-docs, I

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On a different note, has anyone given any thought to handling Blobs? I know that in SQLite, they store the data as binary strings, but I am not quite certain how the external would handle the actual data going into and coming out of it. Mike ___

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: I guess what I am getting at is that I don't see how we can prevent people from using this maliciously. Using true placeholders or other form of automatic quoting. If they are creating the SQL and putting the data into it, how can we stop them from

[PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

2007-12-10 Thread Roman Haefeli
hi why does the symbolatom not allow the user to enter spaces? or in other words: why is there a restriction, if it can be circumvented by using [makefilename]? people do it anyway, so why prohibit it in the first place? roman

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Martin Peach
If you have applied the add string support patch you can use the blob atom, which is essentially a pointer to, and the length of, a binary string. The string can be anything at all. Martin Mike McGonagle wrote: To: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding Date: Mon, 10 Dec

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jamie Bullock wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:18 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: This almost *never* happens. I take your point, but I think you are exaggerating slightly. Not in this context. We're only looking at the average query; I don't even mean an actual query,

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jamie Bullock wrote: Fair enough, I think I was probably stretching the point about using the [psql]-style of database connectivity requiring less objects. However, it's perfectly possible to have multiple [psql] instances connected to the same database, so the routing

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Thomas Grill wrote: Frank Barknecht schrieb: But as everyone knows that I don't really understand why a DB external has to be a

Re: [PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Roman Haefeli wrote: why does the symbolatom not allow the user to enter spaces? or in other words: why is there a restriction, if it can be circumvented by using [makefilename]? people do it anyway, so why prohibit it in the first place? I don't know. In DesireData, if I

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
Is this something that is part of PD Vanilla? I would like to be able to have this external running there. Thanks, Mike On 12/10/07, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have applied the add string support patch you can use the blob atom, which is essentially a pointer to, and the

Re: [PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

2007-12-10 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 15:03 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: print: symbol real\ people\ want\ to\ use\ spaces! definitely. the first question i hear from people using netpd/pd the first time is: 'how can i type spaces?' yet i decided to not add another dependency for netpd just because of

Re: [PD] Fwd: [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Mike McGonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 10, 2007 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/10/07, Jamie Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point! I

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On 12/10/07, Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it requires multiple logins, perhaps many at once, which might be wasteful. For sharing database connections between several [psql] objects, what do you think would be the best ways to do it? This is supposing that several different

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Very nice, thanks for making the example, I linked to it from the wiki page. .hc On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Mike McGonagle wrote: Hans, I still have yet to learn about the WIKI stuff, but I posted a Inlet Proxy example on my page ( http://puredata.info/Members/ mjmogo ). I don't know

Re: [PD] Fwd: [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On 12/10/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (What is the hold inlet, by the way?) It's a hot inlet that has been misspelled... It would be really nice to be able to have inlets for the sql placeholders, but I couldn't think of a clean way to do it. We could try the dynamic

Re: [PD] Fwd: [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On 12/10/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (What is the hold inlet, by the way?) It's a hot inlet that has been misspelled... It would be really nice to be able to have inlets for the sql placeholders, but I couldn't think of a clean way to do it. We could try the dynamic

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote: On 12/10/07, Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: Could someone please explain that IMPORTANCE of worrying about SQL injection? Just how would it effect users of PD? We don't know what pd

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Jamie Bullock wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:18 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: This almost *never* happens. As long as what you do in Pd is regular read-write activities involving tables that contain data that you only want to see a small part of at a

Re: [PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Roman Haefeli wrote: since one can even open a file containing spaces in the path from pd, it would actually make sense, if symbolatom would support that. i can't think of a case, where supporting spaces would break anything (or am i overseeing something?). It would only

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: In one of the early prototypes I wrote for this, I set it up so that the connections were shared. Basically, when an object tried to open a connection, it would check if there was already one open, and if so, it would use that. Else it would create a

Re: [PD] array indirection

2007-12-10 Thread Phil Stone
A glorious hack, Jean-Yves! This should work well for what I am envisioning. One strange thing, though: if you move the subpatch (that displays the selected array), the other array is visible underneath it. I wonder what's up with that? Thanks for the solution, Jean-Yves (and Chuck for

Re: [PD] Fwd: [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Also, I don't know if any objects do this kind of dynamic inlet creation after the object itself has been instantiated. It might not even be possible. It's possible, and I've done it, except for the bit of disconnecting every wire

Re: [PD] RIP Stockhausen

2007-12-10 Thread Yvan Vander Sanden
Andy Farnell wrote: Of course he will always be remembered as an avant garde composer, but much of Stockhausens greatness is missed by artists who saw him as a pseudo-scientist and scientists who dismissed him as an artist. He was both at different times. A lack of rigor and precise

Re: [PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 15:03 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: print: symbol real\ people\ want\ to\ use\ spaces! definitely. the first question i hear from people using netpd/pd the first time is: 'how can i type spaces?' yet i decided to

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Martin Peach
It probably would end up in vanilla if there was a demand for it, although Miller doesn't seem to like the idea, needs more convincing ;) Martin Mike McGonagle wrote: To: Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote: On 12/10/07, Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it requires multiple logins, perhaps many at once, which might be wasteful. For sharing database connections between several [psql] objects, what do you think would be the best ways

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jamie Bullock wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:18 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: This almost *never* happens. I take your point, but I think you are exaggerating slightly. Not in this context. We're only looking at

Re: [PD] RIP Stockhausen

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:41:32 +0100 Yvan Vander Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And of coruse we must not forget he came from sirius to explain us all that :-) No way? A or B? I can't stand those wankers from Sirius B with their our star's brighter than yours crap. Or was he a

Re: [PD] Fwd: [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote: On 12/10/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (What is the hold inlet, by the way?) It's a hot inlet that has been misspelled... It would be really nice to be able to have inlets for the sql placeholders, but I couldn't

Re: [PD] RIP Stockhausen

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Farnell
Siriusly though... I seem to recall Newton was something of an occultist. Einstein and many other scientists share beliefs in supernatural entities. Does that really effect the value of their work? By all accounts Stockhausen was an arrogant man, which perhaps explains his clumbsy

Re: [PD] RIP Stockhausen

2007-12-10 Thread beau
He'll be missed, but the music will live on: http://flickr.com/photos/cypod/2094889566/ On Dec 11, 2007 5:15 AM, Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siriusly though... I seem to recall Newton was something of an occultist. Einstein and many other scientists share beliefs in supernatural

Re: [PD] Fwd: [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Mike McGonagle
On 12/10/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool, that sounds like a good idea. I probably got it from you. :) Maybe you are already doing this, but a query could also send a message out of the status outlet to say how many results were found (i.e. [results 5(). This

Re: [PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:34 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Roman Haefeli wrote: (or am i overseeing something?). It would only break externals that rely on lack of spaces in any way, and only if supposing that you

Re: [PD] [psql] object hand-holding

2007-12-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
What we really need is regression testing, I think that would make it easier to convince Miller to accept patches, and would be a great tool for finding bugs. Matju started that project, any word on that Matju? I'd love to see that in action. :D .hc On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Martin

[PD] re . xml-rpc client

2007-12-10 Thread jim ruxton
Hallo! Thanks I looked at that but it wasn't clear to me how I could connect to an external server such as http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/api.sample.php with this. Do I need to run a python script along with the patch? Is there a help file some where? Well, there is an help pach: look in

Re: [PD] Moveable Type - powered by Pd

2007-12-10 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
As a follow up, I just read a nice little comment toward the end of this blog post by David Byrne: http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2007/12/12062007-embedd.html Congrats! ~Kyle On Dec 5, 2007 11:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is running PDa 0.4 for sound and custom

Re: [PD] re . xml-rpc client

2007-12-10 Thread Georg Holzmann
Hallo! Thanks Georg . I saw this patch but it doesn't really have any explanation associated with it that I can see. Also one would have to run another script in Python or something to make the xml-rpc calls if I understand it correctly. No, this is just an example in python... Is that