I'll have to have a look and see what the ideas are... I don't know anything yet. Anyhow I think there are a couple of things that are higher priority: getting editing to be more user-friendly, and getting the IEM GUIs to behave better. And I'm afraid I can only write code at a fraction of the speed others can - so PD vanilla will always seem years behind everything else.
cheers Miller On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 12:45:33AM +0100, João Pais wrote: > > > >On 03/05/2014 05:24 AM, Pierre Massat wrote: > >>Dear list, > >> > >>First of all i'd like to say that i'm very impressed by the > >>potential of data structures in Pd. I've always kind of ignored > >>this feature and it's a >>pity because it's really worth diving > >>into it.That being said I think that help and example patches > >>are far from sufficient for beginners, and if it wasn't for > >>Chris McCormick's s->>abstractions I would have been able to > >>really figure out how to use them (stuff like how to make an > >>entire polygon draggable, how to use >>GOP with proper scaling, > >>etc.). > > > >It's not just the documentation, it's the interface. Having to > >walk linked-lists of graphically unlinked objects is bad. Having > >to use boilerplate to find the >head of a glist just to create a > >scalar is bad. > > > > I think Pd-l2ork is getting close to a release with my new data > >structure stuff in it. It's a first step at addressing some of > >these issues. > > and any prospects of that stuff making it into vanilla or pd-ext, > for the non-unix users out there? > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list