Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Right now I'm pretty confused. What did I miss? In retrospect, it seems very odd to me that switching the lines sending velocity ad note in arp would have any effect. I would expect those to lines to happen simultaneously at least from interconnected pd-objects point of view. Personally I

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Why do you consider this a fundamental problem exactly? Because there is information about the data-flow of the program that is simply not represented by what you are seeing. I consider that pretty fundamental. However, as I said, there is the [trigger] work-around, and that's fine. I don't

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Stephen Sinclair
this is clearly a problem of your side, and i would even consider it as a bug of the patch. use [trigger]s, whereever you can. this is MUCH cleaner, than max' graphic representation, that can be messed up so easily. After some thought on the subject, I realize that of course if the Pd

Re: [PD] some images...

2007-09-03 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Actually it's readable everywhere, as it's just an xml-file that acts like a kind of pointer to the *.mp4 file. I replaced .qtl in the URL with .mp4 and downloaded and viewed that file instead. I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, it came up in the browser but didn't play, but I right-clicked and chose

Re: [PD] Obscure pd externals in search path shadow .pd files in current working directory

2007-09-01 Thread Stephen Sinclair
There should be some way in Pd to throw out objects by name... I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with name conflicts so that nobody ever gets burned :) In a way it might be nice to have some concept of namespaces, such that objects can be referred to simply by name, or alternatively

Re: [PD] A basic question re: messages and sequencing

2007-08-30 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Hi, Not sure about the removal of duplicates, but for your second question take a look at the list-enumerate abstraction. (Located in abstractions/footils/list-abs) Steve On 8/30/07, Mat Wall-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi.. I've been working in PD on a project and I have two message

Re: [PD] OSC bundles with time tag

2007-08-30 Thread Stephen Sinclair
So, to answer this post as well as H.C.'s previous query on the topic, I had a look at the dumpOSC code and indeed it doesn't handle the timetags. The only related code is the following: /* Print the time tag */ #ifdef DEBUG printf([

Re: [PD] Fwd: circular motion of a shape using TranslateXYZ

2007-07-22 Thread Stephen Sinclair
here's another solution, only using Translate Steve On 7/22/07, Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the corrected patch (much simpler than what you are expecting) Tom On 7/22/07, Richard Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From:

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] the end of type restrictions

2007-07-22 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Actually a thought occured to me: If the arguments of [unpack] should not also specify their types, why do we have these arguments at all? As I see it, then they would only be there to specify the number of outlets. However using the argument count to specify the outlet count is really awkward

Re: [PD] dumpOSC feature request

2007-06-19 Thread Stephen Sinclair
I just wanted to say, I definitely agree to this request. I think the dashed-outline should _exclusively_ reserved for objects that fail to load. They should not fail to create if they are loaded. If they have bad arguments, they should be created, but simply refuse to work properly. It would be

Re: [PD] isn't the GUI supposed to have lower priority than process?

2007-06-08 Thread Stephen Sinclair
- using Jack in RT mode - increasing buffer size - using dual-core computer - using renice on the pd process this suggestions won't solve the mentioned problems for sure (besides increasing the buffer to a huge amount). since the problems arise withing pd itself, you cannot solve them

Re: [PD] isn't the GUI supposed to have lower priority than process?

2007-06-05 Thread Stephen Sinclair
all this issues cannot be 'worked around' within pd, which makes pd sometimes not very suitable for presenting/live situations. I'd be curious to know what happens when you try things like: - using Jack in RT mode - increasing buffer size - using dual-core computer - using renice on the pd

Re: [PD] network

2007-06-01 Thread Stephen Sinclair
I think the best way would be to put some kind of timestamp in the messages and have the receiver hold the received message until the timestamped time occurs. That should get rid of any jitter at the expense of a second or so of delay. In fact that's an interesting point related to OSC. OSC

Re: [PD] Writing OSC applications in XUL

2007-04-29 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Sorry for being a tad green. Andre Schmidt has made some SVG GUI examples http://osku.de/svg/gui-examples/. Say one would like to use such GUI's to - via OSC - control things in a Pd patch running on, say, localhost. What is the obvius next step? My intuition doesn't ask for a Firefox

Re: [PD] Writing OSC applications in XUL

2007-04-28 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Hi, is there a serialization for PD messages inside OSC? for example so one could load a webpage containing some XUL data hosted on padawan's site...it could check for a local PD instance, and shuttle the patch data over and open it.. If I understand you correctly, yes this is something I

Re: [PD] Writing OSC applications in XUL

2007-04-28 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Very nice tool Stephen. It work on Ubuntu Dapper too. Very interesting for controlling/monitoring server-side pd too. I should update my Cool, I'm glad you got it working! Always good to know something compiles and runs on someone else's machine.. ;-) Steve

Re: [PD] ODE external ?

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Sinclair
That would be more straightforward (and fast) to simply send the whole transformation matrix : shapes cubes foo 0.234 1.000 ... Yes, as Frank has said, I am using OSC this way. Vectors are sent as three arguments in a message. Actually I recently had a discussion about this... one opinion

Re: [PD] how to pack symbols together and eliminate the space?

2007-04-05 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Hello, I posted an abstraction a while ago that handles this problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-list@iem.at/msg04851.html It will concatenate two inputs. It works with symbols and numbers correctly. (Converts numbers to symbols.) It uses makefilename internally. Cheers, Steve On

[PD] prependaddr

2007-03-21 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Hello, Here's a little abstraction that I've personally found very useful when creating patches that output OSC messages. It is sort of like an opposite to OSCroute. http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/puredata_patches cheers, Steve ___

Re: [PD] apt get for abstractions

2007-03-12 Thread Stephen Sinclair
what if you could refer to abstractions using URLs? a caching system could take care of reducing the need to be connected at all times. something like ZeroInstall for example. or perhaps using Java-style class paths, especially if URLs could be included in the class path. would this lead to

Re: [PD] PeRcolate?

2007-03-06 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Thanks for all the replies on this topic. I'll try compiling the old verison, or I might just do some hacking myself, at least on the STK objects I need. Cheers, Steve ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

[PD] PeRcolate?

2007-03-05 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Does anyone know if there is still a Pd version of PeRcolate available? It seems it hasn't been kept alive.. (At least the web site, http://www.akustische-kunst.org/puredata/percolate/, seems to be down.) Thanks, Steve ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list

Re: [PD] PeRcolate?

2007-03-05 Thread Stephen Sinclair
/planetccrma/software/pdworld.html#SECTION00063700 spencer On 3/5/07, Stephen Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is still a Pd version of PeRcolate available? It seems it hasn't been kept alive.. (At least the web site, http://www.akustische-kunst.org

Re: [PD] minor but persistent annoyances

2007-02-24 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Try Duplicate, Ctl-D. The new copy is offset slightly right and down. Thanks I'll try that! Steve ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] minor but persistent annoyances

2007-02-23 Thread Stephen Sinclair
3) When you copy and paste (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V in immediate succession), the pasted object is in exactly the same position as the copied object (fine), except that it is _underneath_, so when you click and drag it out of the way you move the original instead, messing up your carefully placed patch

Re: [PD] Playing .flv files

2007-02-16 Thread Stephen Sinclair
ffmpeg seems to be convert an flv quite well for me, in Ubuntu Dapper: ffmpeg -i video.flv -acodec copy -o video.avi (This will leave the audio as mp3, and re-encode the video into mpeg4) Steve On 2/16/07, Derek Holzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I see...it's proprietary Flash junk

Re: [PD] floats getting forced into int

2007-02-14 Thread Stephen Sinclair
We've just had a big discussion about this subject on the OSC list. There is currently no solution for Pd, but perhaps there is something in the works. http://www.create.ucsb.edu/pipermail/osc_dev/2007-February/thread.html Steve On 2/14/07, David Brynjar Franzson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[PD] sflist equivalent?

2007-01-18 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Hello, A friend just asked me if there is an object in Pd that is similar to sflist in Max/MSP. I havent' used this myself, but he says it basically pre-loads wav files in a playlist, so that there is no waiting time between successive samples. If not, it shouldn't be too hard to do in an

[PD] anti-aliasing in linux?

2007-01-16 Thread Stephen Sinclair
I've been looking on Google to find a way to enable anti-aliasing in Pure-Data on Linux. Is it possible? The tk::mac::CGAntialiasLimit variable is Mac-specific I guess. Even if it makes the boxes blurry, I'd like to try it. Sorry if this has come up before.. Thanks, Steve

Re: [PD] sig/control on/off

2006-12-30 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Any Ideas for how to halt or enable passage of info through sig and control patch cords? not a necessary question but would be helpful k spigot? steve ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] Re: Multi dimensional [list]

2006-12-26 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Jiri, It is here. http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2003-02/009590.html You can always find old messages in the archives: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/ This is true for most mailing lists. Steve On 12/26/06, Jiri Heitlager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently

Re: [Pd] Loading externals in Linux

2006-11-05 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Come to think of it, wouldn't it be useful if Pd just *always* checked for extensions in the user's home folder? ~/.pd-extra, for instance. (Whether it should be first or last on the search path, I'm not sure.) Steve On 11/5/06, Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, I found it. For