[PD] Difference between import and declare

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
What is the difference between import and declare? Pd 0.4 and up, will on of the two be deprecated? Tom ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Difference between import and declare

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Hum, first observations: import is realtime: it imports the lib right away while with a declare you need to reopen the patch which is a pain. import seems to be less flexible than declare (as declare has many different flags). Tom On 10/31/07, Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What

Re: [PD] many paths, how

2007-10-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
But isn't this all deprecated? I thought the new official way of loading externals in Pd-Extended was to either use prefixes or the import object (which make more sense with the upcoming Pdpedia, permits the dynamic loading of libs and better follows the standard import method seen in other

Re: [PD] pd to webpage

2007-10-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
What is the difference between [str] and [any2string]? If I understand correctly str is a wrapper for standard string functions and it's output is a pointer to a string. I believe this approach is more limited that using any2string because all basic string functions can be recreated once a symbol

Re: [PD] pd to webpage

2007-10-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
The help is in moocow/pdstring-help.pd Tom On 10/18/07, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas O Fredericks wrote: What is the difference between [str] and [any2string]? I don't know. I can't find the help file for [any2string] so I don't know how to use it. Maybe I have to look

Re: [PD] pd to webpage

2007-10-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
The main difference is that moocow's conversion of a message into a string appends a 0 at the end of the created list. Tom On 10/18/07, Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The help is in moocow/pdstring-help.pd Tom On 10/18/07, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas O

Re: [PD] pd to webpage

2007-10-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Attached, two abstractions that can help. Feel free to modify. Tom On 10/18/07, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas O Fredericks wrote: The help is in moocow/pdstring-help.pd It's not there in the autobuilt Pd version 0.40.3-extended-20070905 even though any2string

Re: [PD] Syncing an event with refresh rate in GEM

2007-10-12 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
BOTH screens must have the same refresh rate or you will get tearing. Tom On 10/12/07, Olivier Heinry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 15:32 -0400, Thomas O Fredericks a écrit : Yes there is. Your monitors have to have the same refresh rate in your xorg.conf (for all

Re: [PD] Comport and UBW problems on Linux

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Hi Martin, just to make sure, the newest version of comport is in iem/comport/comport right? But the result should be the same, the data gets sent anyway, the error is bogus. Nope, the data is never received by the device. Please note that there are only problems with sending data through

[PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I am looking for a way of reading/writing strings (as defined by the string2any and any2string externals) to the hard disk. Is there already an implementation anywhere (maybe I will adapt textfile or msgfile)? The reason is I want to bypass the limitations imposed by pd's special characters so I

Re: [PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
editor and would display a b c. Tom On 10/11/07, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas O Fredericks wrote: I am looking for a way of reading/writing strings (as defined by the string2any and any2string externals) to the hard disk. Is there already an implementation anywhere (maybe I

Re: [PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Hum, I just loaded the file created with binfile inside textfile and it works like I want. But how do I make the system recognize the file as a text file? TOm On 10/11/07, Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again Martin, Hum , the output file is a binary. I don't think I

Re: [PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
PROTECTED] wrote: Oh. Do you mean that it won't open in a text editor or that it doesn't have a text icon, or both? Martin Does not work on linux. Tom On 10/11/07, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas O Fredericks wrote: Hum, I just loaded the file created

Re: [PD] Comport and UBW problems on Linux

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
([comport] write returned %d, errno is %d, result, errno); //return result; } //Added end Tom On 10/11/07, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas O Fredericks wrote: Hi Martin, just to make sure, the newest version of comport is in iem/comport/comport right? Yep

Re: [PD] Syncing an event with refresh rate in GEM

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Yes there is. Your monitors have to have the same refresh rate in your xorg.conf (for all your monitors) as Gems refresh rate and you have to set up the opengl params of your card so that it refreshes the opengl in between synchs (called sync to VBlank in my nvidia-settings panel). On 10/11/07,

Re: [PD] Comport and UBW problems on Linux

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Cool. It's great the behavior will be the same on XP and POSIX. I get the following warning (treated as an error): cc -DPD -O2 -fPIC -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses -Wno-switch -I../../src -I../../../../pd/src -o

Re: [PD] Syncing an event with refresh rate in GEM

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
sync to vblank will sync swapping buffer with the screen frame rate, but that's not the original question. to my knowledge, there is no possibility to sync gem rendering with the screen frame rate. if you fix both at 60Hz, you can have jitter (not a lot, but some). You are not technically syncing

Re: [PD] Syncing an event with refresh rate in GEM

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I agree! It would guarentee better results but would increase the chance of a cpu lock up I think! Tom On 10/11/07, Roman Haefeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 01:49 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 00:48 +0200, cyrille henry wrote: Thomas O Fredericks

[PD] Comport and UBW problems on Linux

2007-10-10 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I am creating an abstraction to ease the communication with an UBW (USB Bit Wacker: http://greta.dhs.org/UBW/index.html). The abstraction uses comport to communicate with the device. It is considered as USB modem by the system. See the tail of dmesg when the device is plugged in to my Ubuntu

[PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-08 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/10/08/first-max-5-preview-music-patching-the-next-generation/ ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Trying to implement switch ramp

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
that is the size of one block, sometimes there, sometimes not). How can I make this consistent? Tom On 10/3/07, Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 13:52 -0400, Thomas O Fredericks wrote: Actually

Re: [PD] Trying to implement switch ramp

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Are there any objects to make ramps smaller than one second? Tom On 10/3/07, Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vsnapshot~? Where can I find it's help? (I use Ubuntu PD(not extended) and PD 0.40-2) I still see inconsistencies in the patch I submitted I will try to make something

[PD] Trying to implement switch ramp

2007-10-02 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Hi, I am trying to implement the switch ramp that the list was talking about. Attached you will find the abstraction and a patch showing the bug. Why doesn't this work? Actually, it kind of works, but there is an annoying glitch (when you replace the lines with vlines inside mix.switch.ramp~ the

Re: [PD] PdDefinitions

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Has the backlash been integrated as an escape character in the pd's editing environment? Or is it still only useful in the file description format? Tom On 9/29/07, Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some help for writing your http://puredata.org/dev/PdDefinitions ... those are surely

Re: [PD] scale from maxlib - undocumented feature

2007-09-22 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
This is a standard feature of all obects/externals: If the hot inlet does not accept a list, the firs Tom On 9/22/07, João Miguel Pais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just found out that if a list is sent to a |scale|, all values after the 1st substitute the parameters. The result will be

Re: [PD] scale from maxlib - undocumented feature

2007-09-22 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
This is a standard feature of all obects/externals: If the hot inlet does not accept a list, the first element is sent to the first inlet, the second element to the second inlet, etc... Tom On 9/22/07, João Miguel Pais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just found out that if a list is

Re: [PD] [PD-dev] [ANN] new external: tracker

2007-09-21 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Wow, very nice. Very much improved! Does it compile easy on other systems than Linux? Comments: I had to edit your makefile to point to my pd sources. Maybe you should note that somewhere. Also, I had to add a space between and $*.tk2c in the line #12 of your makefile (sh tk2c.bash $*.tk

Re: [PD] [PD-dev] [ANN] new external: tracker

2007-09-21 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Excellent, it compiled on windows (properties window still does not thought). Also, I think you should specify that your external requires PD 0.4 Attached the compiled windows version and a modified makefile. Tom On 9/21/07, Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, very nice. Very

Re: [PD] [ANN] new external: tracker

2007-09-21 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I got the error with pd 0.39, not pd 0.4 Tom On 9/21/07, patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi federico, after compiling your external (with tk2c.bash copied in /usr/bin beforehand). i have this error: /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/tracker.pd_linux: /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/tracker.pd_linux:

Re: [PD] inconsistencies with lib names (was: representning classes

2007-09-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
It looks like the function do_open_via_path in s_path.c is the one to fix... Wow, talk about solving a big problem with the most simple solution! If this were implemented (and that could be done in one day instead of years), the rights to Max/Msp would not have to be bought (as this is clearly

Re: [PD] inconsistencies with lib names (was: representning classes

2007-09-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
visit the documentation website. The cvs version is outdated, and since there is talking of making a svn system, they will be integrated properly then. Tom On 9/18/07, Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, Thomas O Fredericks hat gesagt: // Thomas O Fredericks wrote: It looks like

Re: [PD] getting cue/loop points from WAV files

2007-09-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
If you are interested, with the sample_id system, the pdmtl abstractions have a basic 4 cue point system i.e. start,end, loop in, loop out . Once you load a wav with the sample_id system you can load it many times without the actual sample(frame) data being reloaded. Since you can save the

Re: [PD] inconsistencies with lib names (was: representning classes and selectors in the wiki)

2007-09-15 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
You will be happy to know that the pdmtl abstractions have given up (for a couple of months now) the [pdmtl/list/op] style of naming it's abstractions. By building the pdmtl abstractions layer, users do not have to care about namespaces anymore (anyways, I don't), as all externals/libraries are

Re: [PD] please help me read mp3 files on a win2k system!!

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I was able to play mp3s in Windows with through a vst and the vst~ external. It worked great. The vst mp3 player: http://www.kvraudio.com/get/604.html (almost everything can be controlled with vst~) Tom On 9/12/07, David Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! This is driving me nuts! I

Re: [PD] Simple PD GUI enhancement - like Max Toolbox

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I think to implement it we would need new externals to provide better access to the window(patche) contents,names and such... Tom On 9/10/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 9, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Batuhan Bozkurt wrote: pat wrote: Batuhan Bozkurt a écrit : Hello,

Re: [PD] Simple PD GUI enhancement - like Max Toolbox

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Starting from scratch (an empty patch) you can do it with internal messages. But with a currently build patch it is not possible now. Tom On 9/10/07, Kyle Klipowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell, you can do this with internal messages to Pd. Am I off base here? ~Kyle On

Re: [PD] Simple PD GUI enhancement - like Max Toolbox

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
WHAT! I did not know tot could do that! Surprise, surprise! Thanks Patrice. I could build an object toolbar with that! Tom On 9/10/07, Patrice Colet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 9/10/07, Batuhan Bozkurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any facility like this in PD? Not necessarily

Re: [PD] Why in Brasil and how?

2007-09-05 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I am sorry, but in Canada at least: the rest believes: making the rich richer is good for everybody, JUST IN CASE you might get rich. Tom On 9/5/07, marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glerm soares wrote: Hi folks. I didn't mean to be the annoying guy, fundamentalist or whatever.

Re: [PD] new external: closemsg

2007-09-04 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
That is why this object's name will change. It will be called destroysend because it sends a bang when it is destroyed. It is designed for inter patch communication NOT inner patch communication. After your receive object, simply add a delay message with 0 for time and you should be sure that the

Re: [PD] new external: closemsg

2007-09-04 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I have been waiting (count in years) for the long promised closebang. As for many PD promises, I am tired of waiting... I got work to do! I will not patch my PD (or use a special version) because I want my patches to be cross-platform and accessible to all users. am i correct that your external

Re: [PD] new external: closemsg

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
being empty either. This is not an issue with this external as it is made to annonce to another patch that the current patch is being deleted. On 9/3/07, Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Thomas O Fredericks wrote: Since I started making externals for PD, here

Re: [PD] inconsistencies in msgfile

2007-08-30 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
report! Tom On 8/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi. Quoting Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also experienced many inconsistencies with msgfile. But I do not think it has to do with spaces. If you add data to a msgfile then send a write /test message, it answers

Re: [PD] puredocumentation

2007-08-29 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
We implemented something similar forthe help files in PDMTL abstractions. See the pdmtl.inde.maker.pd in https://devel.goto10.org/listing.php?repname=pdmtlpath=%2Ftrunk%2Ftools%2Frev=0sc=0 Tom On 8/29/07, marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, this is the start for the

Re: [PD] audio visualizations

2007-08-28 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Very nice. Excellent use of transparency! Tom On 8/28/07, Nikola Jeremic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have some old work of me experimenting with Gem ... feel free 2 use it :) the patch needs audio input and likes techno... u can change the photos in the images folder with your own ones, but

[PD] question about getdir(Guenter Geiger)'s code

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Thanks to Han's help page (http://puredata.info/docs/developer/mingw) I was able to compile a test external on windows with mingw. I then started making a new external called getdollarzero based on getdir (from ggee) and parentdollarzero (from iemlib2). I compiled it and it works but I had to: 1)

Re: [PD] audio visualizations

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
You can also check out some of the PDMTL Abstractions. Here are some screenshots: http://wiki.dataflow.ws/PdMtlAbstractions/ScreenShots Tom On 8/27/07, Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Atte André Jensen wrote: I feel impolite to ask in such a hurry, but is

Re: [PD] [Gem] Multi-Screen on Windows

2007-07-27 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
There is a way of fiddling with the XP monitor display properties settings to set the second screen as your primary screen (on my cheap laptop, the path is Control Panel/Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/Utility Manage/Driver Mode). That way, the laptop screen will not be accelerated, but your

Re: [PD] xsample OsX i386

2007-07-25 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
: These are included in Pd-extedned also. .hc On Jul 24, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Thomas Grill wrote: Hi, please try the one at http://g.org/ext/beta greetings, Thomas Am 24.07.2007 um 23:41 schrieb Thomas O Fredericks: Anyone have a copy of xsample compiled for OsX i386? If not, how does one compile stuff on OsX

[PD] xsample OsX i386

2007-07-24 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Anyone have a copy of xsample compiled for OsX i386? If not, how does one compile stuff on OsX. I usually work on Linux, but are all the compilation tools, headers, etc already installed on OsX or do I have to get them somewhere? Thanks for the help -- thomas ouellet fredericks, [EMAIL

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

2007-07-22 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
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: Richard Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 22, 2007 3:32 PM Subject: circular motion of a shape using TranslateXYZ To:

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

2007-07-21 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
In what case do you rely on using [unpack 0 0 0] except for throwing an error when it receives a symbol? As it was previously suggested on this list, why use anything else than [t a] or [t b]? I think Mathieu's end of type restrictions is a great idea. For example, if you use Max/Msp every so

Re: [PD] video preview

2007-07-18 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
You could start two PDs. Each one controlling it's own Gem window. One would be the main output, the other the previewer. Tom On 7/18/07, Patrice Colet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi Patrice, If you are using pdp, why not just create another pdp_xv window just for

Re: [PD] how to know line~ has finished

2007-07-15 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
You can also use Line~ or curve~, both from the cyclone lib and included in Pd Extended. Tom On 7/15/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jasch wrote: hello, i'm flabbergasted. how do you all know when a ramp has finished ramping? none of PD's line/line~/vline~ objects

Re: [PD] how to know line~ has finished

2007-07-15 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Line~ is not the same as line~ But you can simulate Line~'s behavior with Pd's basic objects. See the attached patch. Tom On 7/15/07, jasch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, errm, yes well, i'm actually running PDa on an ARM procesor ;=) anybody wants to port cyclone to PDa ? (hello fixed point

Re: [PD] purge list of redundant numbers

2007-07-06 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
This solution uses coll (from the cyclone library). It works with floats and symbols (you could even count the repetitions with a few changes). Tom On 7/6/07, Nicolas Montgermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This seems to work but the order is broken. I haven't test all the possibilities.

Re: [PD] [netsend] unix socket because of [comport]

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
In my own experience netsend/netreceive works very well even with a constant stream of data. Tom On 7/4/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: patrick wrote: hi, i'm looking for the best way to use netsend / netreceiving between 2 instances of pd (1 with -nogui) running on the

Re: [PD] pdmtl abstractions questions and comments

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Thomas O Fredericks wrote: Yes, everything does have to be in a category. This constraint makes for an environment that is especially useful for newbies and resolves a lot of conflicts. verb/is article/this noun/sentence adjective/easier prep/to verb/read ? Yes

Re: [PD] pdmtl abstractions questions and comments

2007-07-02 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I vote for no namespace, no prefix, it's difficult enough to organize files for pd, and many prefixes won't work with externals that requires a script, for example if I put my python scripts into extra/python, I'd call the script with [pyext] with a namespace like that [py python/myscript

Re: [PD] pdmtl abstractions questions and comments

2007-07-02 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
MB Ok, but I don't think that the _ character is so distinctive. I mean, it's enough to distinguish unambiguously, but it's still looks pretty close to a space, and it doesn't seem to have the kind of appeal to it[...] We used ! (an upside down i that stands for interface) before instead of _

Re: [PD] pdmtl abstractions questions and comments

2007-07-02 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
[...] Without their prefix -- [list]-abs is using a dash instead of an underscore or a slash, because underscores are harder to type on german keyboards and because not following guidelines leads to more fun in life [...] Wow, talk about cheap thrills :) Doesn't the German keyboard have a /

Re: [PD] gemmouse wish

2007-06-25 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
You can try gems/mouse in combination with gems/win from the Pdmtl Abstractions to get the mouse behavior you are looking for. Get a recent snapshot of the Pdmtl Abstractions here: http://wiki.dataflow.ws/PdMtlAbstractions -- thomas ouellet fredericks, [EMAIL PROTECTED], montreal, canada On

Re: [PD] arduino+solenoid concert

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
So, SMS is signicantly slower because it uses ASCII conversion ? Interesting. Even at high baud rates ? SMS is aimed at ease of use and precision. Although I am surprised to ear about SMS's and Pduino's speed problems. I made an installation with an SSC-32 servo controller controlling 24

Re: [PD] [Gem] pix_film error question

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I thought pix_ouput a -1 as the frame count when it did not properly load a movie (there is something in the doc related to that) but I can not get it to work. Tom On 6/22/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Mayer wrote: Hello, I sometimes encounter messages error:

Re: [PD] [Gem] pix_film error question

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
oups: pix_ouput = pix_film outputed On 6/22/07, Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought pix_ouput a -1 as the frame count when it did not properly load a movie (there is something in the doc related to that) but I can not get it to work. Tom On 6/22/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig