yes, now it makes more sense. that could be very sexy, as besides all the
interesting ideas, it would be possible to have a only-graphical version
of Pd running, for people who are only users.
it might not be very practical for cases where canvases have more than a
certain number of scalars (I have some with a couple thousands), but very
nice for other issues.
João
When you create an abstraction, you basically save a patch that is a
template
for all instances of the abstraction which you will create later. [f
$1] gets filled
in with the first arg, [symbol $2] with the second arg, and so on.
With my idea, you create a scalar that has an associated canvas (similar
to
an abstraction), and that canvas has access to the field values for that
scalar.
Example: let's say you have [struct foo float y symbol blah canvas bar],
and
have a subpatch [pd bar] that is a template for the field "bar" which is
just a
canvas. So when you create a scalar foo, that scalar has a y variable--
which is a
float; a blah variable-- which is a symbol; and a bar variable-- which
is a canvas.
Imagine a hypothetical object inside that scalar's canvas called [getmy
y], and
when you bang it you get the y value associated with _this_ scalar. Now
imagine
this inside bar:
[getmy y]
|
[mtof]
|
[osc~]
|
[catch~ bus]
Now if you instantiate 16 scalars, each one of them has an associated
oscillator
that gets its pitch from that scalar's y value. In other words, each
scalar also
has a canvas that holds within it the means to produce sound from the y
value
that you see.
I'm just assuming here that [getmy] would work like the outlet of
[struct]-- that is,
it sends out a message when the y value for that scalar is updated. (Or
alternatively
when it is banged.)
Better yet, imagine using "foo" as the template for another struct as in
the following:
[struct container float x float y array z foo]
Now you can create/destroy voices in an oscbank using [setsize]! Of
course I'm
skipping over lots of details, like you'd still have to rebuild the dsp
graph, and how
loadbang would or woudn't work when you instantiate a scalar with a
canvas field,
etc., etc.
Hopefully some of that makes sense.
-Jonathan
João
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