On Mar 9, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:45 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
So it seems that gem objects are initing everything to zero,
things like colorRGB and translateXYZ don't work if you specify
less than three values. It seems to me that those missing values
should be set to zero, since that is how Pd generally works,
hmm, i would prefer if elements that are used wrongly would not
create at all.
e.g. if you make an object [translateXYZ 0 1] you will get an error
message on the console "[translateXYZ]: needs 0 or 3 arguments".
users should read the console and properly create the objects.
i understand that nobody will have a look at the console everytime
an object has been created.
so they should be guided by some feedback: the best feedback i can
imagine right now would be to fail to create the object.
the alternative would be to provide wrong default arguments. i cal
lthem "wrong" because they will most likely be wrong in most cases.
therefore i prefer to not impose them on the users.
Why is that wrong? I seems perfectly natural to me in Pd land, and
I bring this up because students did exactly this. Values
initialize to zero when not specified. There are definitely
precedents to this in Pd-vanilla, why should Gem be different than Pd?
The other side of this question is: where is the harm in doing
this? Would this cause any problems to make Gem be more like Pd?
<init_to_0_precedents.pd>
I never heard back on this one. I think it is important for Gem to be
as much like Pd-vanilla objects as possible. It may not be what
everyone wants to do, but I don't think it would cause harm or get in
the way of anything so I think its worth adding. I'm willing to do
the work.
.hc
.hc
mfg,asdr
IOhannes
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