HI Fred Jan,

that sounds good. But I think you sent me the same file as before? They
are exactly alike.

I don't want to push it, but I noticed 2 details that I could mention. But
ignore them if you have better things to do:
- since I'm recording the console output of the tcl patch, only now I
noticed that it adds a first line with "lines to patch: 9 36 37 38 39..."
etc. Anyway it is ignored by Pd when loading the file, I only noticed it
by chance when I opened the pd file in a text editor
- I didn't look at the structure of the pd files clearly enough, the lines
starting with "#X restore" and "#X msg" could also be processed, for a
more coherent result.

But anyway, ignore all these if you have more interesting things to do. I
can do any testing anytime for anything - since I can't program on
anything else than Pd, at least it's my way of paying back the price of
free software.

Afaik, there isn't any rasterizer or grid alignment option - you might ask Jonathan Wilkes, since he's putting lots of new things into Pd2lork. Or maybe the community might be interested in supporting your code to improve patching quality - at least it could have an interesting result for you.

Best,

Joao

Hi João,

Changed the behaviour and also added some code that prevents #A and #N
lines from being changed. Make sure you proper test it, because I
didn't. Consider this the price of free software :-).

@Dan: It is Tcl, but I should look into the gui plugin interface to make
it work. And another way of selecting objects as there aren't any line
numbers within Pd. It could be converted to some kind of rasterizer or
align-to-grid option, but that may already exist...

Greetings & success,

Fred Jan

Hi Fred,

I did some testing today when I had some more time. It works great, and
if I use it in a command like xxxx > new.pd, I get the new patch out of it.

If I may, I would ask for a small improvement: it would be great if the
processing would be done in the opposite way; that is, all lines with #X
obj are processed, *except* the ones given as arguments. I can also work
with the version you sent me, but for the exercises I'm thinking about,
only an exception of lines will be kept in the original way.

I tried to do it myself, but quickly I came to the conclusion that my
lack of experience with scripting languages doesn't really help me.

Thanks a lot,

Joao


Hi João,

It appeared to be a simple program in Tcl, which you should have, as it
comes with Pd.
The usage is: tclsh changeCoords.tcl patchName xcoord ycoord line1
?line2? ...
lineN arguments may be a number or a range, like 12-15.

The patch is currently dumped to the console. Only minimal checking is
done.

If you remove the #'s for the puts "..." lines, you can see some interim
results (which will ruin the patch format).

Greetings,

Fred Jan

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