--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors
> To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:47 PM
>
>
> --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors
> > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 4:05 PM
> >
> > On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
> > >> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch
> > Authors
> > >> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]>
> > >> Cc: [email protected]
> > >> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:00 AM
> > >>
> > >> It is Pd, so I think we should at least make
> an
> > effort to
> > >> make things easy to parse in Pd. I tried
> > your parser
> > >> using data that is probably closer to what
> we
> > might use, and
> > >> it didn't work at all. If someone
> > can get a
> > >> Pd parser working that can handle the commas
> well,
> > then I
> > >> would be OK using commas in the meta data
> format.
> > >>
> > >> Here's my data:
> > >> tags - pure data, frequency modulation,
> synthesis
> > >
> > > Hi Hans,
> > > I wouldn't expect my example
> > to work as a general solution. If you
> > > want a general solution, I'd be happy to take a
> stab
> > at it, but you
> > > haven't said what you want Pd to do with the
> data
> > example you've provided
> > > above.
> >
> > Ah, sorry, I thought you'd followed the object_db.tcl
> > plugin discussion and the [pd META] discussion with
> > Frank. Basically, the object_db.tcl plugin builds a
> > multilevel menu for finding objects based on tags.
> I'm
> > am sure people will think of other uses for the
> tags.
> > Frank suggested using comma separated tags in his [pd
> > REFERENCE] format, the PDDP group came to the
> conclusion
> > that the meta data should be easily parsable by Pd,
> and I
> > still think that's a good idea.
> >
> > So the idea is to have every help patch have a [pd
> META]
> > subpatch, and in it, have a comment with tags.
> >
> > .hc
>
> Oh, ok. I'll have a look at that discussion.
>
> -Jonathan
Yes, I have seen this discussion. But I'm still confused: are commas
a problem in tcl? If not, I still don't understand the problem (see
attached).
#N canvas 261 110 450 300 12;
#X text 46 42 TAG foo \, bar \, blah blah \, blee;
#N canvas 585 102 344 452 12;
#X obj 12 35 textfile;
#X msg 12 10 read file.pd \, rewind \, bang \, bang;
#X obj 12 60 route #X;
#X obj 12 85 route text;
#X obj 12 110 list split 2;
#X obj 52 192 list split 1;
#X obj 124 60 file;
#X text 170 60 <- file to be parsed;
#X obj 52 223 t b a;
#X obj 67 260 list;
#X obj 84 291 sel \,;
#X obj 109 346 t a;
#X obj 76 379 list;
#X obj 84 165 print before;
#X obj 76 409 print after;
#X obj 52 138 t a a;
#X obj 109 319 list prepend;
#X connect 0 0 2 0;
#X connect 1 0 0 0;
#X connect 2 0 3 0;
#X connect 3 0 4 0;
#X connect 4 1 15 0;
#X connect 5 0 8 0;
#X connect 5 1 9 1;
#X connect 5 2 12 0;
#X connect 5 2 16 1;
#X connect 8 0 9 0;
#X connect 8 1 10 0;
#X connect 9 0 5 0;
#X connect 10 1 16 0;
#X connect 11 0 12 1;
#X connect 11 0 16 1;
#X connect 12 0 14 0;
#X connect 15 0 5 0;
#X connect 15 1 13 0;
#X connect 16 0 11 0;
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