>> did you have a look at the purest_json library, does it help? >> I didn’t but I saw it was neither vanilla nor available for all CPUs, so that won’t be helpful in my case (except if I decide to tackle a fluid.dictionary external which i don’t want to if I can avoid it)
hence asking if there was a native version/hack. I’ll look at Alexandre’s abstraction, that might do the trick. The idea would be to be able to dump fluid* status (mlp for instance) in text, edit, then load them back. This has been seen as useful on other platforms, so I’m trying to find a way… > BACH library for Pd. now, that is a fun challenge ;) I was talking to both Daniele and Andrea about this in the last year… it would be a fantastic addition obviously but I don’t envy the person who will do that job p > On 8 Feb 2026, at 17:38, João Pais <[email protected]> wrote: > > did you have a look at the purest_json library, does it help? > >> Dear all >> >> Apart the fact that flucoma releases (and nightles soon) are on deken >> (hurray!), I am slowly getting back in trying to add the last bit missing to >> our interface… but the lack of native dictionary style file/data structure >> is not helping us to keep the structured (json style) states of objects >> simply yet programmatically editable (like in max and supercollider) >> >> here is an example of one of our user’s clever use of the text object >> despite its limits >> >> https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/way-of-modifying-state-of-fluid-robustscale-in-puredata/2717/16 >> >> now I know there are “pd structure” magicians on here, and maybe someone has >> had the idea to create a sort of hack to parse json files, or even general >> dictionaries of associative key-values? >> >> Ideally, I’d be able to access those in the C api… but a temp json file is >> also possible on the way, we do that with SuperCollider anyway. >> >> any pointers (pun intended) welcome >> >> p >> --- >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> - the Pure Data >> mailinglist >> https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/YWXEUDCIFKZH5ZHUAPXYZSCA6Q2J4OBX/ >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.i <https://lists.i/>--- > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/QI3VZVQVMYJG7XWAJSAHDBBGY76YH4UM/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/
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