A quick search of puredata.org turns up: http://puredata.info/docs/developer/fileformat
There's lots of good stuff there! :D .hc On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > Through trial and error I've managed to reach what I thought was > an understanding of Pd file format. However, on deeper analysis > I keep discovering I'm wrong, in fact the Pd file structure and > the syntax of the statements is not what I thought (which explains > many previous programming errors). > > I think it's been asked before and received no satisfactory answer, > so once again - Where is the complete file format and syntactic > definitions of the Pd file documented (not by reading through the > source of the parser)? > > Would someone care to go through and explain in a simple tutorial > how Pd constructs its netlist and what are the meanings of the > parameters to each of these statements > > > #X msg 125 100 bang; > > An easy one, a message containing [bang( at coordinates 125 100, > right? > > #X obj 144 128 s $1-zero; > > And again, an object of class "send" at coords 144,128 with name $1- > zero. > > #X array $1-THREE 6485 float 0; > > Maybe an easy one, we create an array called $1-THREE of size > 6485 of type float. And an array doesn't need coordinates because a > graph > has the coordinates not the array. But what is that 0 at the end? > > > #N canvas 0 22 450 300 graph1 0; > #X restore 235 308 graph1; > > What is the real purpose of restore? What are these parameters? How > does > it relate to the canvas? > > What the hell is coords? Why? > > #X coords 0 1.02 6484 -1.02 200 130 1; > > > #X connect 60 0 62 0; > > Can anyone thoroughly explain connections and how their ordering > is important? It's an ordered adjacency matrix? > > I think this would be very helpful for everyone to have > properly documented somewhere. > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > -- > Use the source > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
