----- Original Message -----
> From: Miller Puckette <[email protected]>
> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] specifying time
>
> 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".
Could you just convert to ms, or would this require changes to the code in
order to be sufficiently precise?
-Jonathan
>
> 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
>> >>
>> >>
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