On 6/6/2010 8:42 PM, Funs Seelen wrote:
Typing "pure data object list" in google leads you straight to the flossmanual, which contains useful documentation about pd (and other Free-Licensed-Open-Source-Software), including object-lists. For not all existing libraries are in pd-extended probably not all existing objects will show up on the list. Which objects you're able to use depends on the version you installed and which external libraries you've loaded.
Thanks for the tip. However, the array object (which I doubt is in one of the extended libraries) is not shown in the flossmanual list of objects. Nor do the items in the list on that site link to any sort of documentation of the objects that _are_ listed.
There is a page on arrays, graphs, and tables. But it doesn't mention the idea of clipping the values within an array, which I have now been reminded is done by processing the input value using a moses. That's easy enough to do ... the point is, it's not documented anywhere on the array page, and the dialog box for the Canvas Properties is needlessly confusing, because it implies that the user can do something that is not in fact possible.
I love free, open-source software. What I don't love, not even a little tiny bit, is the _documentation_ for free, open-source software.
But then, I'm a professional writer. I have standards for how documentation ought to be written. What scares me is the possibility that the standards for the coding may not be any higher than the standards for the documentation. I seem today, for instance, to have stumbled on a serious bug in the Csound midiin opcode. That sort of thing seems to go with the territory. (Not that commercial software is free of bugs, or always has good manuals!)
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