Welcome (back) to Pd! :-) I have two quick responses:
- pdpedia is useful for searching for objects based on keywords:
http://wiki.puredata.info/en/
- as for the help patches that are lacking, feel free to fix them up
and submit them to the patch tracker, then we can add them. There are
2000+ objects included in Pd-extended, so there is a lot of work to
document them all.
http://puredata.info/dev/patchtracker
.hc
On Apr 3, 2009, at 4:13 AM, J. Simon van der Walt wrote:
Seems there's a lot of activity around docs and tutorials in this
community
at the moment. It's great for someone like me, giving Pd another try
after a
couple of years of using Max/MSP. Since I last looked at it, things
are much
improved. Pd-extended is great; all the libraries I'll probably/
maybe need
are packaged away in a .app where I can just forget about them. This
is
market leading as far as I'm concerned; much better than Max/MSP (or
heaven
forbid, SuperCollider!) - for me as a musician/geek (but not a
programmer)
the whole business of trying to figure out which stupid folder some
bunch of
stupid files has to be dropped into just - gets - really - boring.
On the docs and tutorials front, again I'm finding a lot of great
stuff.
However... just at the moment I'm trying to port one of my favourite
max
patches to Pd and finding it unexpectedly difficult to find the
information
I need. I find I'm missing three really useful things in Max/MSP; in
order
of importance, probably, consistent 'related object' buttons in the
help
patches, the Object Thesaurus, and a complete reference manual.
Ok, there are 'related object' buttons in many help files, but for
some
reason I can't quite put my finger on, I frequently find myself dead-
ended
in Pd, and not sure where to look for an object which might just do
what I
want.
This is where an Object Thesaurus would be really great, being able
to look
up objects (including those from extended libraries) by what-they-do
category. For instance, the other day I was looking to see if there
was
something like the Max/MSP matrix~ and matrixctrl for audio routing. I
couldn't really see where to start, other than trawling randomly
through
help files and tutorials in the hope of spotting something relevant.
http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData/ListofObjects is a good start in
this
direction (although that page is formatting oddly for me at the
moment?)
Finally, of course, a complete reference page on every object...
nb 1 - of course, for matrix~ I ended up using, er, matrix~ from the
cyclone
library. Still wondering if there is another way, rather than just
falling
back on Max/MSP solutions...
nb 2 - hope this post comes across as useful feedback from a newish
user,
not carping...
--
J. Simon van der Walt ----- Composer
<http://www.jsimonvanderwalt.com>
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