Yes, blocks and samples would be great too. The advantage of having a symbol qualifier in a message as opposed to creation arguments of the object is that [line~] etc could respond to mixed messages with different units.
Andy On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:26:49AM -0800, Miller Puckette wrote: > A better way might be to give the line~ (etc) objects optional arguments to > specify units. I think there aren't many of them (line, line~, vline~, delay, > metro, delread~, vd~). I also think that's how Max dealt with it. > > In particular, it would be very useful to be able to specify a delay in > samples or "blocks". > > cheers > Miller > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 01:21:25PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > > Should be easy enough to implement since it would be a symbol, so it would > > be clearly separated from the currently arg, which is always a float. > > > > .hc > > > > On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > > > > > > Great suggestion. It makes sense. > > > And numerical strings are already parsed for e > > > (exponent) and - (minus) aren't they? > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:10:54PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > >> [del 4m33s] > > >> > > >> [1 3s( > > >> | > > >> [line] > > >> > > >> [metro 1d2h4m3s21ms] > > >> > > >> That last one is overkill. :) > > >> But sometimes you want to work in something other than ms, and it's a > > >> pain to make convenience abstractions. > > >> Kinda like [f $0]--[set $1-blah( is a pain > > >> > > >> If a class with a float method that has no symbol method receives > > >> ([0-9]+[wdhms]+)+ > > >> then couldn't pd just convert it to a millisecond float value? > > >> > > >> -Jonathan > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> [email protected] mailing list > > >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > [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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
