On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:16 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > João Pais hat gesagt: // João Pais wrote: > >>>> I already made my one available several times on the list - >>>> whenever >>>> the question "how many objects are in pd-ext" comes -, but >>>> probably it >>>> wasn't that popular. >>>> 2682 objects? when I check the properties of the extra folder >>>> (windows), I get 2666 files - bear in mind that there are several >>>> repeatitions (many objects are repeated in flatspace), and other >>>> files >>>> aren just secondary material, and some objects don't work. did >>>> you sort >>>> out repetitions or something? >>>> how did you extract this list? >>> >>> I did this manually, a lot of copy and paste. >>> and yes, there might be some duplicates and some unusual objects >>> like >>> all the gemgl objects are in the list... >> >> ah ah, and I thought I was the only crazy guy going through object >> per >> object and extract the information (see excel file). ok, maybe we >> should >> discuss a more serious way of automatising this. > > I've just added the system we use in the RjDj lib to [list]-abs as > well. It's pretty simple, but cool: All objects are described in a > textfile using this format: > > objectname - short object description in one line without commas > > In [list]-abs this file is called "list-abs-intro.txt". (It also > allows lines consisting of just an integer number, which is used to > optionally make room for larger GUI objects in the overview patch.) > > A helper file reads this list into a textfile and dynamically patches > all referenced objects and descriptions into a subpatch. This patch is > called "list-abs-intro.pd".
Sounds like a useful thing. How about sticking this info into a subpatch in the help patch? They could easily be parsed with textfile and route. Then there is only one file per object to maintain. .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Free software means you control what your computer does. Non-free software means someone else controls that, and to some extent controls you." - Richard M. Stallman _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
