Re: [PD] Letter - Number

2008-02-13 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
marius schebella wrote: you could use msgfile from zexy and write your transaltions into a textfile if you are using zexy anyhow, then i suggest using [index] (a dictionary) instead of [msgfile] (you can use [msgfile] or [textfile] to actually store the mapping. or use [select] as marius has

Re: [PD] *.lua = *.pd_lua or *.l_lua?

2008-02-13 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I think this kind of thing should be caused by a real world problem rather than a hypothetical. i think this discussion _is_ triggered by a real world problem, and you seem to try making it hypothetical. fgmasd.r IOhannes

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread Dudley Brooks
marius schebella wrote: have a look at pix_record. Thanks for telling me about it. it is a little bit challenging to use... Do you mean that it's hard to figure out how to use it, or that it might overload the computer's processing power? ___

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread Dudley Brooks
chris clepper wrote: Look at pix_snap and pix_record to make a Quicktime movie or pix_write to make an image sequence that can be made into a movie using Quicktime Pro. Thanks! ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] [PD-dev] DesireData

2008-02-13 Thread David Plans Casal
On 13 Feb 2008, at 00:24, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, David Plans Casal wrote: On 12 Feb 2008, at 20:31, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Depends... I have another question... what if I want to fork/branch (whatever one calls it) other folders outside of the /trunk/pd hierarchy? CVS

Re: [PD] *.lua = *.pd_lua or *.l_lua?

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: Similar things are possible with luax, ... Correction 2: luax is a loader as well, I confused it with lua~ here. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ __footils.org__

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread Jaime Oliver
pix_record was crashing constantly in osx 10.4.11 gem 0.91-cvs and pd-0.40-1powerbook ppc.there was a thread about it not that long ago. Maybe in gem-dev. best, J On Feb 13, 2008 1:57 AM, marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dudley Brooks wrote: marius schebella wrote: have a look

Re: [PD] *.lua = *.pd_lua or *.l_lua?

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I am not arguing this for some arcane reason. All of the new Pd binary extensions (.pd_imac, .l_i386, .m_i386, etc.) that have been added have ended up causing me a lot of extra work in Pd-extended with no real

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread marius schebella
Dudley Brooks wrote: marius schebella wrote: have a look at pix_record. Thanks for telling me about it. it is a little bit challenging to use... Do you mean that it's hard to figure out how to use it, or that it might overload the computer's processing power? yes, hard to figure

Re: [PD] Phasor Driven Midi File Playback?

2008-02-13 Thread simon wise
On 13 Feb 2008, at 7:53 AM, Martin Peach wrote: This works on my system: [read C:/PROGRA~1/pd/doc/5.reference/textfile.txt( but [C:/PROGRA~1/pd/doc/5.reference/textfile.txt( | [read $1( does not work. try [symbol C:/PROGRA~1/pd/doc/5.reference/textfile.txt( | [read $1( simon

Re: [PD] fixes in 0.41?

2008-02-13 Thread matteo sisti sette
I just realized that [netsend] and [netreceive] are unreliable, and this may be the source of most of my crashes now. When bursts of large numbers of messages are sent, there are random message losses. I may send 1000 messages in a burst and lose messages 613 through 918, with nobody issuing any

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread Olivier Heinry
Le Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:17:01 -0800, Jaime Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : pix_record was crashing constantly in osx 10.4.11 gem 0.91-cvs and pd-0.40-1powerbook ppc.there was a thread about it not that long ago. Maybe in gem-dev. best, yes, there was a thread because the object

Re: [PD] select device for pix_video on Os x

2008-02-13 Thread stefan
thanks, it works when I send [device 0, input $1, dimen 640 480( while changing input number only, nothing happens but I succed by changing device and input numers [device 6, input 1( it works with any input number...(?) if I send only [device 6( or only [input( nothing happens it makes

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd 0.41-1 (bug fix for Mac OSX 10.5.1)

2008-02-13 Thread David Plans Casal
On 13 Feb 2008, at 01:39, Miller Puckette wrote: Pd 0.41-1 is available on http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html It's the same as 0.41-0 except for a bug fix for newer versions of Mac OSX (10.5 and newer) thanks to David Plans Casal. I should point out I led the fork() debugging and

Re: [PD] measurement of spectral richness

2008-02-13 Thread Jamie Bullock
Hi, On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:45 -0800, punchik punchik wrote: ive heard a lot of times that natural sounds has more spectral richness that digital generated sounds... is it possible to measure the spectral richness of a sound? There isn't a standard metric for 'richness' as far as I know.

Re: [PD] newbie questions(ableton)

2008-02-13 Thread Roman Haefeli
there is a version of pd, that can be used as a vst plugin on a windows machine. http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/pdvst/ roman On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 02:01 +, Steve Arnett wrote: i was wondering if it is possible to use pure data as plug in in ableton live 5...perhaps as a vst or some sort of

Re: [PD] Letter - Number

2008-02-13 Thread Roman Haefeli
just in case, you didn't know the objectclass, there is a objectclass [key], which outputs a number, whenever a key is pressd. since you want to press only single keys, having to press enter after each keypress could be a pain. however, if you decide to go for [key] instead of symbolatom, you

Re: [PD] newbie questions(ableton)

2008-02-13 Thread Derek Holzer
Latest version of Ableton (Live 7)doesn't seem to work with JackOSX. Too bad. I used this method for a while with Live 5 and it worked fine. d. Kevin McCoy wrote: As of now, I think the only way is to route through Jack OSX - there was supposed to be something going on with a pluggo pd as per

Re: [PD] Letter - Number

2008-02-13 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Hi, I use Lua to do keyboard input processing [1] (from GridFlow's [#out window] so I don't accidentally activate any Pd shortcuts when performing...). A Lua object to map symbols to numbers would be very simple: -- snip boring class init stuff local tab = { A = 1, a = 1, B = 2, b =

Re: [PD] newbie questions(ableton)

2008-02-13 Thread David Plans Casal
On 13 Feb 2008, at 13:48, Derek Holzer wrote: Latest version of Ableton (Live 7)doesn't seem to work with JackOSX. Too bad. I used this method for a while with Live 5 and it worked fine. I just tried Live 7 taking channels from Soundflower and sending to Soundflower from PD, and that

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread Dudley Brooks
Jaime Oliver wrote: pix_record was crashing constantly in osx 10.4.11 gem 0.91-cvs and pd-0.40-1 powerbook ppc. That's been my experience so far too. there was a thread about it not that long ago. Maybe in gem-dev. best, Thanks. I'll look for it. Meanwhile, what recommendations does

Re: [PD] Comments on pd as a library to be used in game

2008-02-13 Thread Pablo Martin
Hi! Chris McCormick escribió: (...) Which seems to vaguely work, although I haven't made it make a sound yet. Anyway, I think this could be a good strategy for tying Pd into Blender. I would suggest running Pd in a separate thread and using a mutexed queue to pass it messages which would

Re: [PD] Comments on pd as a library to be used in game

2008-02-13 Thread Pablo Martin
hi! marius schebella escribió: Patrice Colet wrote: marius schebella a écrit : It would be great to have python modules that ease the communication between Blender and PureData, with FUDI or OSCx! why do you want to run all communication through python? or do you mean on

Re: [PD] Comments on pd as a library to be used in game

2008-02-13 Thread Miller Puckette
Part of the trouble is that only one instance of Pd can live in any given address space (because of widespread use of static variables). This is fine for linking Pd into a video game where you'd only want one instance, but if you want multiple ones you'd want to sprout separate Pd processes with

Re: [PD] Letter - Number

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, David F. Place hat gesagt: // David F. Place wrote: Thanks. I prefer to stick with vanilla Pd to make it easier to port. Select will certainly work. I have to translate 50 letters ('I' is never used as a rehearsal letter), so it is quite an ugly patch. To make it more beautiful,

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Dudley Brooks wrote: Meanwhile, what recommendations does anyone have for other methods of making a DVD of Gem output, I record my actions during performance, then later play them back into my patch with pix_write and writesf~ activated. Pd uses 1000% CPU load, and stutters during

Re: [PD] open with on os x

2008-02-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
It's not a secret, it's decently documented on Apple's site. The registration happens when you start the app. The OS reads the Contents/Info.plist that's inside the app when you launch it. .hc On Feb 12, 2008, at 6:46 PM, marius schebella wrote: true. it is apple's big secret where

Re: [PD] Comments on pd as a library to be used in game

2008-02-13 Thread Pablo Martin
Yes, but... why doesnt pd already export some kind of library? In a way it sucks that such a powerful engine is trapped inside a binary in that way, a good library would allow embedding in better ways, as well as ease experiments like desiredata or any others that might follow (thats my opinion at

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread chris clepper
a crashlog would help a lot. On Feb 13, 2008 4:17 AM, Jaime Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pix_record was crashing constantly in osx 10.4.11 gem 0.91-cvs and pd-0.40-1 powerbook ppc.there was a thread about it not that long ago. Maybe in gem-dev. best, J On Feb 13, 2008 1:57 AM, marius

Re: [PD] Letter - Number

2008-02-13 Thread David F. Place
On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:51 PM, marius schebella wrote: you could use msgfile from zexy and write your transaltions into a textfile a 1; b 2; c 3; ... and then [r letter] | [rewind, find $1( | [msgfile] | [$2( | [s number] pool (thomas grill) also has dictionary lookup

Re: [PD] open with on os x

2008-02-13 Thread marius schebella
but the registration is system intern and I cannot access it and change it and therefore have problems when I want to use a different release version as default. after googleing information on how Info.plist works, I came across this link

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread marius schebella
another way to record your performances is to mirror your display and feed the output with a dv camera or some other device. recording your actions is brilliant but a lot of effort during patching. marius. Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: Dudley Brooks wrote: Meanwhile, what recommendations does

Re: [PD] libdir_loader pd-extended

2008-02-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
The libdir stuff hasn't changed in probably over a year, so I don't know how new it is. There is lots in the archives about it: http://lists.puredata.info/search/PD-list? query=libdirmax=20result=normalsort=score And a doc for it: http://puredata.info/docs/developer/Libdir .hc On Feb 12,

Re: [PD] *.lua = *.pd_lua or *.l_lua?

2008-02-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:44 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I think this kind of thing should be caused by a real world problem rather than a hypothetical. i think this discussion _is_ triggered by a real world problem, and you seem to try making it

Re: [PD] open with on os x

2008-02-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Can't hurt. Let us know what happens. .hc On Feb 13, 2008, at 2:08 PM, marius schebella wrote: but the registration is system intern and I cannot access it and change it and therefore have problems when I want to use a different release version as default. after googleing information

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread cyrille henry
marius schebella a écrit : another way to record your performances is to mirror your display and feed the output with a dv camera or some other device. this will limit the quality. recording your actions is brilliant but a lot of effort during patching. in fact, not so much effort.

[PD] [key] vs symbolatom [Was: Re: Letter - Number]

2008-02-13 Thread David F. Place
On Feb 13, 2008, at 4:52 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: just in case, you didn't know the objectclass, there is a objectclass [key], which outputs a number, whenever a key is pressd. since you want to press only single keys, having to press enter after each keypress could be a pain. I use

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread Dudley Brooks
Olivier Heinry wrote: The last time I tried to pix_record on OSX (on a Dual G5 running Panther, 2Go RAM) , I switched to Gem2pdp + pdp_rec because the Mac couldnt handle it in realtime for a 640x480 window and PDP made it (might be related to PDP multithread capability). I'm sorry, what

Re: [PD] [key] vs symbolatom [Was: Re: Letter - Number]

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, David F. Place hat gesagt: // David F. Place wrote: I use [key] to implement simple controls for my program. I also use symbolatom to accept alphanumeric input. These two uses often clash however. If I want to enter a string that contains one of my command letters the command

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread jim
maybe recordmydesktop - but I seem to recall it supports only Ogg codecs... BTW, I'm on Linux, but the above tools might work on OS X too. Haven't folowed this entire thread but also want to mention Yukon on Linux works for recording Gem output. Site seems to be down at the moment

Re: [PD] Letter - Number

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, David F. Place hat gesagt: // David F. Place wrote: Thanks. I prefer to stick with vanilla Pd to make it easier to port. Select will certainly work. I have to translate 50 letters ('I' is never used as a

[PD] audio prefs messaging?

2008-02-13 Thread potax flan
hi list is there a way to send a semicolon message to pd that tells the system to use a specific sound output device and number of output channels? it's not too hard to go to the menu and select it from there, but it'd be so handy this way. and while we're at it, whats the best bet for

Re: [PD] open with on os x

2008-02-13 Thread marius schebella
ok. since steffen got different behaviour on his computer, I did some more testing, and indeed with the current format given in plist for the key CfBundleVersion this information is useless, because osx cannot interpret it correctly. that means the default app is the one that you installed

Re: [PD] audio prefs messaging?

2008-02-13 Thread marius schebella
the latest version is Pd-0.40.3-extended-20080117-macosx104-i386.dmg or Pd-0.40.3-extended-20080117-macosx104-powerpc.dmg from http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2008-01-17 depending on whether you have a ppc or an intel machine. the download section on puredata.info is not helpful with

Re: [PD] *.lua = *.pd_lua or *.l_lua?

2008-02-13 Thread Chris McCormick
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:29:31PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Currently pdlua loads all *.lua files, which complicates working with *.lua modules not intended to be used as pd classes: Those would have to be in a directory outside of Pd's search path to not pollute Pd's

Re: [PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

2008-02-13 Thread Chris McCormick
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:39:40PM +0100, cyrille henry wrote: marius schebella a écrit : another way to record your performances is to mirror your display and feed the output with a dv camera or some other device. this will limit the quality. recording your actions is brilliant but a lot

[PD] [PD-announce] cozinhaberta (openkitchen) no uol

2008-02-13 Thread palmieri, ricardo
http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/ultnot/2008/02/13/ult4213u330.jhtm desculpem o X -- ricardo palmieri # 1185833173 [palm.estudiolivre.org] [skype:palmieriricardo] [jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [linux user # 392484] ___ PD-announce

Re: [PD] audio prefs messaging?

2008-02-13 Thread Steffen Juul
On 14/02/2008, at 1.29, potax flan wrote: is there a way to send a semicolon message to pd that tells the system to use a specific sound output device and number of output channels? Yes. But not an official supported way. it's not too hard to go to the menu and select it from there,