Hey Andy Pure data text files are not human readable, this is a simple fact of their existence, while you can tell what an object is and where it is on the canvas (although subpatches make even this difficult), the objects and inlets/outlets for wires are numeric, and you have to add anything new at the end of the file to avoid them pointing to the wrong place.
I have come across this library for ruby https://github.com/nagachika/ruby-puredata/, which will remember objects by name and hopefully would be usable to make some pure data work in text. Although I've never gotten into it, so I don't know if it will be of any use. https://github.com/nagachika/ruby-puredata/ Andrew > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:58:07 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PD] Textual pd primer > > > I guess this is a case of working out best practices for development. > > Nobody actually develops Pd in text mode, but gettin things running in > an embedded way involves a good deal less graphics and can be intimidating > or confusing at first. > > If you don't want the RPi set up with mouse, kbd and monitor like a full > system, it's rather like working on other embedded development systems, > you need to see the board as a target host, and your local machine as the > development (client). > > One way is to work on a laptop or desktop, and the ftp/scp them accross to the > target board. > > But probably most useful is to use X windows to ssh > > ssh -Y -l user address.of.my.rpi > > and then just start Pd, which will seem to run on your main machine. > > > I sense some kind of Raspberry Pi and Pd workshop in the coming > weeks. maybe best developmnt practices and tips will be an > outcme of that meeting. > > best, > Andy > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:42:47AM -0400, Sam Raker wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Longtime listener, first time caller. > > I was wondering if there's a good intro to text-only pd. I just got a > > raspberry pi, and I've heard a lot of chatter about how the -nogui flag > > solves a lot of weird dsp problems &c, plus it'd be nice not to have to > > waste a USB port plugging in a mouse as well as a keyboard/midi > > keyboard/sound card/m-audio box/etc. Plus my main comp is a mac, and I'm > > worried making my patches on my Mac and then getting them onto my pi will > > be a pain in the b. > > > > I've seen people say stuff like, "oh, just make a patch and look at it with > > a text editor and figure it out," but that's a bit over my head. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > -sam > > _______________________________________________ > > [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
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