On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:04:18AM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > HI, > > Morgan Packard wrote: > > Hello there. > > I'm interested in using PD. However, as someone who spends a lot of > > time with code, I'm actually a little afraid of the learning curve > > involved with the graphical programming language! I'd be much more > > comfortable creating my patches using, for example, a Python tool. > > Does such a programmatic PD patch generation tool exist? I can't > > imagine I'm the first person who's wanted such a thing. > People will probably point you to csound or supercollider for your first > statement... Anyway the curve is not really so steep, dataflow is of > course a slightly different mindset, although if you are skilled at > coding that will nevertheless prove benefical. > > Regarding python, you might have a look at py/pyext [1]. I couldn't > successfully have it setup in Ubuntu, because it is strongly tied to a > particular python version. Something more 'flexible' IMHO would be nice, > ideally running directly within pd would be really nice, even at the > level of non-dsp abstractions to begin with (similarly to javscript in > MAX)... But this doesn't seem to be of much interest currently. > > Lorenzo >
You can write plug-in scripts in Tcl/Tk. Since 0.43 there is an official way of loading them .. though Miller disregards this feature. _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list