Tyler Leavitt wrote:
I second what Dan S said about gedit.... just looked it up and the
plugin is called "Sced" and it is installed on puredyne (9.11 atleast).
gedit is about as easy as a text editor can get. It's notepad for linux,
only better.
Axel wrote:
My questions:
- Is there a chance I can do what I want with Puredyne or should I just give
up and go back into the cozy arms of corporatism?
Yes and no.
- If the answer to the first question is yes, can someone give me some clues
as to how to achieve it?
see below
- Is there a text editor that's actually usable with SC?
yup,
- If yes, how????
like this:
I'm running SC with gedit under puredyne 9.11, so all of this works for me:
Start gedit from the Accessories group of the main menu, then click
Tools to see if you have "supercollider mode" installed. If not, get
"supercollider-gedit" via synaptic package manager (main menu/System).
When you have gedit with supercollider mode available under tools, just
click on the select box to activate it. You will see a double panel -
the top is your editor, the lower one is the supercollider text output
where "postln" sends its text. Type in a supercollider command, select
it by highlighting or just put the mouse on that single line, and press
Ctl-E, and the command will be executed. Try these lines:
s.boot;
{SinOsc.ar}.play;
That s.boot starts the SC server, without which SinOsc makes neither
signal nor noise.
You should have gotten the graphical server displays installed (SwingOSC
gui) when you installed SC in puredyne, and if so they will have
appeared in the lower left of your screen when you started SC by
clicking on Supercollider Mode. (You can start the SC server by clicking
the gui boot button instead of executing s.boot.) If not, the server
control commands are available in gedit within its newly appearing
Supercollider menu selection, and later you should figure out how to get
them installed correctly.
Now proceed to the supercollider main help page that is installed on
your puredyne machine at (browse to:)
file:///usr/share/SuperCollider/Help/Help.html
and work through the tutorials. Also, get yourself signed up on the SC
mailing list, and use that for SC newbie questions instead of the
puredyne list cause people will know more.
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net//
http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/research/sc_mailing_lists.shtml
Good luck with all this - the SC community is great, but the language is
tough to get your head around at first. Stay with it, and try to figure
out why the examples work, what they are doing.
-Dave
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