Unless the usage is very basic, I think plain vanilla as a requirement does not make sense for this. There are numerous C and C++ libraries which handle the basics and should be leveraged instead of reading bytes with [file] or something similar. Best of all, many of these libraries are only 1-2 files, so making a light wrapper external with minimal requirements for compilation should not be huge issue IMO.
> On Feb 8, 2026, at 8:04 PM, hans w. koch <[email protected]> wrote: > > hello pierre alexandre, > > a while ago i made a parser for .kml files (xml files recorded by bycicle > route trackers) for a friend to sonify her tours. > its plain vanilla and was a pita to make :-) > if thats interesting for you, i can send you a copy of the patch. > > cheers > > hans > >> Am 08.02.2026 um 17:48 schrieb Pierre Alexandre Tremblay >> <[email protected]>: >> >>>> 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] - the Pure Data mailinglist >>>> https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/YWXEUDCIFKZH5ZHUAPXYZSCA6Q2J4OBX/ >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> 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/ >> >> >> --- >> [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist >> https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/FDMWVTTF62B3D5JIPJM5Q4KOJVLV2OLM/ >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/ > > > > --- > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/V5ZSSTMQSAG53TNV65MQHHQ6MHE7VU4P/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/ -------- Dan Wilcox danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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