Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-10-01 Thread Steffen Leve Poulsen
Yves Degoyon skrev: ola, anyway, there's not only programming in life, hopefully, a programmer is someone who has the illusion of making the machine behave as a human brain one day, all he is achieving for now is to make the human brains behave like machines. this to tell

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-29 Thread Yves Degoyon
ola, anyway, there's not only programming in life, hopefully, a programmer is someone who has the illusion of making the machine behave as a human brain one day, all he is achieving for now is to make the human brains behave like machines. this to tell programmers not to feel so superior..

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Atte André Jensen wrote: Mathieu Bouchard wrote: The problem that I have found with Sorry about the misunderstanding. I guess there were some history preceding this. Hey. If I write that kind of thing to you in private it most likely means that I don't want it posted on

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread marius schebella
hey mathieu and yves, both of you do some extraordinary work and I would not like to miss either one of you, so please stop huting each other. talk about your differences only after you figured out what you have in common. marius. Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Hans-Christoph

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread Yves Degoyon
Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Atte André Jensen wrote: Mathieu Bouchard wrote: The problem that I have found with Sorry about the misunderstanding. I guess there were some history preceding this. Hey. If I write that kind of thing to you in private it most likely means

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread Derek Holzer
Warrior Bob wrote: All kidding aside, it's good to see the list so active. I joined up last night figuring I'd hear lots of pd discussion I could learn from and I haven't been disappointed. It's an interesting system and I'd love to be able to do more with it. Just gotta hit the

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread Yves Degoyon
ola, and thinks he can post his brilliant advices all the time to any list, all MB's lists, de facto. in fact, i'd better have said _pedantic_ remarks.. and i checked out desire data again, cos i hadn't follow too closely, just to check if i was not telling crap ( far from me the _desire_

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread Yves Degoyon
ola again, i'm the night night nightly nightmare This goes against FSF/GNU's FSD, rule Freedom Zero freedom zero rule ??? hahaha, can't say better of laws made by a bunch of hippies voting for democrats or conservative, just thinking what's funny here is the similarity between the GPL (

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread Yves Degoyon
oh and sorry another remark, when i read stupid things here like 'girls don't dive into pd', i really think we're in level 0 of intelligence : a/ i don't think this encourages any further dialog, all these cheap 'cliches' ( or your reality ? ) b/ could you tell me who released transcribe~

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread Yves Degoyon
:ola, b/ could you tell me who released transcribe~ lately for pd, was it a man ? here, i didn't want to make a reference to some girls who contributed to pd too, and who are too close to me, they know who they are. i feel with all this shit on gender, we will get to : 'girls are not

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-28 Thread Yves Degoyon
in fact, MB, i'm gonna tell you one more thing : you shouldn't be speaking on pd list at all, as you're _not_ contributing to pd, you're doing desire data... so, get back on your list and be the brilliant mind there, with all your fan club, and speaking of your life, of how you code ( standing

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Stephen Sinclair hat gesagt: // Stephen Sinclair wrote: Since [t] is the official work-around for this issue it's certainly no show-stopper, but I think it would be nice, imho, if there were a cleaner way of representing this. I think, I finally agree with you here, except one thing:

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
marius schebella wrote: Derek Holzer wrote: It can get especially confusing when sends and receives get involved. the pd solution is not much better, you most of the times can not tell which receive will get a message first. marius. the pd solution is _much_ better: you use [trigger] or

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: the pd solution is _much_ better: you use [trigger] or you produce a buggy patch. it does not aim to solve the problem implicitely. true it doesn't solve the problem either. please ignore this. i have misunderstood the problem. fmgads.r IOhannes

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Jamie Bullock
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 03:10 +0200, tim wrote: If you need to have a specific execution order, then you should use a [trigger]. It makes it explicit, which is a good thing. Hello, What makes this a bit tedious is that, if you insert a new argument inside [t b b b] to get [t f b

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Jamie Bullock wrote: Does anyone know if a feature request has ever been submitted for that? If not, I will gladly submit one. yes it has, and i have given an explanation (though no excuse) why this is not trivial to solve (or rather not at all, the way objects are currently created) it

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Jamie Bullock wrote: Does anyone know if a feature request has ever been submitted for that? If not, I will gladly submit one. yes it has, and i have given an explanation (though no excuse) why this is not trivial to solve (or rather not at all,

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Jamie Bullock wrote: Does anyone know if a feature request has ever been submitted for that? If not, I will gladly submit one. yes it has, and i have given an explanation (though no

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Yves Degoyon
Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Yves Degoyon wrote: in my paper a type theory for the documentation of PureData this is very useless to quote oneself, gosh all this blah blah just to say everyone should use triggers, i speak of this in day 1 of a workshop. yves sévy

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Yves Degoyon wrote: but there were rudest things from you like accusing me of not doing free software, http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2005-12/005585.html http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2005-12/005587.html You have to be a bully to accuse me of

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote: Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote: pffft, it's the same trick as what currently allows [pd] to not be recreated when its arguments change... there *is* a precedent. Hm, but generally the outlet count doesn't change when a

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Yves Degoyon
Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Yves Degoyon wrote: but there were rudest things from you like accusing me of not doing free software, http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2005-12/005585.html http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2005-12/005587.html You have to

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Yves Degoyon wrote: but there were rudest things from you like accusing me of not doing free software, http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2005-12/005585.html

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: How about you two settle this in a different forum? Let's not scare the newbies! :D I know beforehand that nothing will ever get settled, so I will just refrain from replying anything to Degoyon in the future. _ _ __ ___ _

[PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Atte André Jensen
Hi So I made to externals, [arp] (arpeggiator) and [legato] (legato monophonic midi module). My idea for both of them to be insertable in a midi stream for instance just after [notein], so they both have (amongst other things) a note inlet (leftmost, hot) and velocity (second to the left,

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Atte André Jensen wrote: If someone could enlighten me, I'd be most happy :-) generally i often find it easier to use a list instead of separate outlets. this way elements that belong together are also grouped together. (if you need the separate values, you can always use [pack]) mfga.dr

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Atte André Jensen hat gesagt: // Atte André Jensen wrote: 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

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 David Powers
On 9/26/07, Stephen Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ... My patches are just full

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Derek Holzer
Howdy all, David Powers wrote: Actually, once you get used to PD, max patches typically look far less 'logical', in my opinion. Actually, the fact that on-screen position affects order of operations at all is very illogical if you ask me. It can get especially confusing when sends and

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Stephen Sinclair wrote: 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

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread marius schebella
Derek Holzer wrote: It can get especially confusing when sends and receives get involved. the pd solution is not much better, you most of the times can not tell which receive will get a message first. marius. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, David Powers hat gesagt: // David Powers wrote: Actually, once you get used to PD, max patches typically look far less 'logical', in my opinion. Actually I believe that even among Max users, using the trigger is considered good practice (at least the Max users in my area tell me this.)

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Derek Holzer wrote: Howdy all, David Powers wrote: Actually, once you get used to PD, max patches typically look far less 'logical', in my opinion. Actually, the fact that on-screen position affects order of operations at all is very illogical if you ask

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Atte André Jensen wrote: If someone could enlighten me, I'd be most happy :-) generally i often find it easier to use a list instead of separate outlets. this way elements that belong together are also grouped together. (if you need the separate

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Derek Holzer wrote: Actually, the fact that on-screen position affects order of operations at all is very illogical if you ask me. If it is so, then please figure out what to do with [inlet]s and [outlet]s because those objects change behaviour according to position in

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Jamie Bullock
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:57 -0400, Stephen Sinclair wrote: It would be nice to fix it, but unfortunately doing so would probably affect backwards-compatibility with people's patches. Anyways, if you have something which absolutely depends on the order in which a message is sent out multiple

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
On 26/09/2007, at 17.57, Stephen Sinclair wrote: looking at an outlet with several lines coming out of it, to determine what order they will trigger. I think the question, from Atte, was about the order in case of multiple outlets of an object. That is not about multiple lines/ connections

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, marius schebella wrote: Derek Holzer wrote: It can get especially confusing when sends and receives get involved. the pd solution is not much better, you most of the times can not tell which receive will get a message first. This depends on creation order of objects,

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
On 26/09/2007, at 20.33, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Currently, documentation does not systematically say when it is that the order is right-to-left and when it is not. Risking to repeat your point(?): Since it's possible to make it not right-to-left, shouldn't that be considered a flaw (in

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Steffen wrote: On 26/09/2007, at 20.33, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Currently, documentation does not systematically say when it is that the order is right-to-left and when it is not. Risking to repeat your point(?): Since it's possible to make it not right-to-left, shouldn't

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 Steffen
On 26/09/2007, at 21.06, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Maybe I didn't write as much as that on that topic in the actual paper, as I was already well over the maximum allowed length. Id say: Spice that paper with all of that and distribute it. I'd like to read it. Lenght should not be a problem

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Atte André Jensen
Steffen wrote: I think the question, from Atte, was about the order in case of multiple outlets of an object. That is not about multiple lines/ connections out of a single outlet. I've been working a lot on the external since then. And after a complete rewrite 2 times, it works very

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Stephen Sinclair wrote: I didn't mean to push people's buttons by making the faux pas of a comparison with Max, but in this respect I do find that at least Max has a deterministic way of showing what messages are going to send in what order. I consider this an

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Steffen hat gesagt: // Steffen wrote: On 26/09/2007, at 17.57, Stephen Sinclair wrote: looking at an outlet with several lines coming out of it, to determine what order they will trigger. I think the question, from Atte, was about the order in case of multiple outlets of an

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Luke Iannini (pd)
Sorry I can't quote correctly, I'm typing from a mobile. Regarding [outlet]s (and inlets) being position dependent, I've always felt they should accept an argument like [outlet 0] etc to specify which they should be on the outside, and perhaps revert to the current behavior with no argument.

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:57 -0400, Stephen Sinclair wrote: 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

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 13:12 -0400, marius schebella wrote: Derek Holzer wrote: It can get especially confusing when sends and receives get involved. the pd solution is not much better, you most of the times can not tell which receive will get a message first. marius. also here: if it

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Steffen wrote: On 26/09/2007, at 21.06, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Maybe I didn't write as much as that on that topic in the actual paper, as I was already well over the maximum allowed length. Id say: Spice that paper with all of that and distribute it. I'd like to read it.

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] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Derek Holzer
Hi again, Stephen Sinclair wrote: However, as seen in this thread, it is sometimes an very confusing issue for beginners in Pd, especially if they have any kind of previous experience with Max. Generally, the beginners I am teaching have *no* experience with PD or MAX, so it is simply a

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread tim
If you need to have a specific execution order, then you should use a [trigger]. It makes it explicit, which is a good thing. Hello, What makes this a bit tedious is that, if you insert a new argument inside [t b b b] to get [t f b b b], the connections already in place don't move

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Yves Degoyon
hola, in my paper a type theory for the documentation of PureData this is very useless to quote oneself, gosh all this blah blah just to say everyone should use triggers, i speak of this in day 1 of a workshop. saludos, sevy ___ PD-list@iem.at

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Yves Degoyon wrote: in my paper a type theory for the documentation of PureData this is very useless to quote oneself, gosh all this blah blah just to say everyone should use triggers, i speak of this in day 1 of a workshop. yves sévy encore... rien à faire... rien à

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Derek Holzer wrote: So I am very careful when instructing newcomers about these kinds of things. Unlike Mathieu's (hopefully facetious) comment some emails back on this thread, I would rather not leave them in the dark to struggle for themselves about it, because that's

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Stephen Sinclair wrote: Since [t] is the official work-around for this issue it's certainly no show-stopper, but I think it would be nice, imho, if there were a cleaner way of representing this. Perhaps you need to think about why you think that it is unclean. What is

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: Regarding [outlet]s (and inlets) being position dependent, I've always felt they should accept an argument like [outlet 0] etc to specify which they should be on the outside Chances are that I requested this in 2002. I was using that feature from

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote: Even the usual example of a reversed inlet-order, [timer], is reversed *because* outlets of important other objects fire right to left, namely [t b b] which gives the nice [t b b] | | [timer] idiom without crossing wires. There is a use for