we do tap on one of these in flucoma, so if I do a fluid.dictionary it’ll be this that I use indeed. I just try to keep maintenance of codebase to minimum, and dependencies to null.
p > On 8 Feb 2026, at 20:53, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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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