Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended

2009-03-25 Thread Steffen Juul
On 24/03/2009, at 18.10, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Scrolling in a number box is not a standard GUI interaction, and not particularly intuitive. So thats the initial reason. Chancing the numberbox to a slider could live together with not making the colour changes i opposed to (- i

Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Matt Barber brbrof...@gmail.com wrote: From: Matt Barber brbrof...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended To: pd-list@iem.at Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 5:38 AM Intuition improves itself by learning. This is my most beloved

Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Steffen Juul st...@dibidut.dk wrote: From: Steffen Juul st...@dibidut.dk Subject: Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended To: Pd List pd-list@iem.at Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 7:48 AM On 24/03/2009, at 18.10, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Scrolling in a

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread John Harrison
Thanks Hans. I know the example patch already and I have [pix_rtx] working fine inasfar as I can get it to do what the example patch already shows. I think my question is more about data flow and Gem. My patch and [pix_rtx} are just an example of a more basic misunderstanding I believe I have

[PD] OSCX or mrpeach/osc ?

2009-03-25 Thread Alvaro
Hi, I'm working on a new patch that uses OSC. I've been using OSCX so far, but then I came accross a page on pdpedia that claims OSCX is no longer maintained, and that I should use mrpeach's objects instead. SVN history seems to confirm this, but then OSCX worksforme, is well documented, and

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread John Harrison
I'm pretty determined to work through this! :-) I thought I'd write a workaround to keep this conversation moving: My plan was to write the video to a buffer with [pix_buffer], then read one frame later and apply [pix_rtx]. I've done this workaround before for similar situations. But I got

Re: [PD] OSCX or mrpeach/osc ?

2009-03-25 Thread Martin Peach
Alvaro wrote: Hi, I'm working on a new patch that uses OSC. I've been using OSCX so far, but then I came accross a page on pdpedia that claims OSCX is no longer maintained, and that I should use mrpeach's objects instead. SVN history seems to confirm this, but then OSCX worksforme, is well

[PD] Trouble PD 0.42 - Gem 0.91.3 Tigital - mac osX 10.5.6

2009-03-25 Thread thomas thiery
Hello pd-list, I use a little patch with an object pix_video (lib Gem) on mac osX 10.5.6 2.8 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon I test it with Pd 0.42-4 ang Gem 0.91.3 we don't see anything, my webcam doesn't appear and I test it with pd 0.41-4 ang Gem 0.91.3 it works Do you have any solutions? Is it a

Re: [PD] Trouble PD 0.42 - Gem 0.91.3 Tigital - mac osX 10.5.6

2009-03-25 Thread marius schebella
Hi, do you see error messages in the console during start up? like do you see a printout about Gem loading correctly? do you see any errors when you load the patch? are the objects created without problems? an issue could be that Gem has to be compiled for 0.42, but that is just a guess. marius.

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread marius schebella
hi john, I just looked at your patches, here's what I think: 1) pix_buffer_write seems to copy and clear the pix buffer. so if your pix_video is connected to pix_buffer_write it is gone and you don't see it anymore (rectangle stays white). I am not sure if this is a bug, it seems strange to me,

Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I've taught Pd quite a bit at this point, and I have watched many people not understand the number boxes as a interactive GUI element. Its based on my experience, that's all. There is no scientific process behind it. It is also based on my

Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Kyle Klipowicz wrote: I took Modern Algebra as my first course in Higher Math. Big mistake. Learning to do proofs this way is a big headache, especially if you have a curmudgeonly teacher! I don't know what kind of prof you had, but Group Theory tends to need proofs

Re: [PD] Trouble PD 0.42 - Gem 0.91.3 Tigital - mac osX 10.5.6

2009-03-25 Thread thomas thiery
Thank you Marius for your answer, here you can find some documentation I test with pd 0.42-0 this is the same problem I don't want to try to compile Gem from scratch but if anyone do this I can test the binary files on my system. I don't see anything in the documentation about this trouble so...

[PD] What font does PD use?

2009-03-25 Thread Ben Baker-Smith
I'm working on some graphics for PdCon09 to potentially use for promotional materials. Could someone tell me what font PD uses? Or at least a close approximation? If it's not a regular font, does someone have a copy of the font file? Thanks, -Ben ___

Re: [PD] Trouble PD 0.42 - Gem 0.91.3 Tigital - mac osX 10.5.6

2009-03-25 Thread thomas thiery
Oh I find this note Current release: Gem 0.91.3 http://gem.iem.at/releases/0.91.3 Released 22/01/2009 — tested with pd 0.40, pd 0.41 So I test with pd 0.42 and Gem have some but If I have time I will try to make a compliation for Mac with pd 0.42 to test in the best condition Thomas

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread John Harrison
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:22 AM, marius schebella marius.schebe...@gmail.com wrote: hi john, I just looked at your patches, here's what I think: 1) pix_buffer_write seems to copy and clear the pix buffer. so if your pix_video is connected to pix_buffer_write it is gone and you don't see it

Re: [PD] Trouble PD 0.42 - Gem 0.91.3 Tigital - mac osX 10.5.6

2009-03-25 Thread thomas thiery
I make a binary from scratch of Gem for Mac osx 10.5.6 and pd 0.42-4 but I have the same problem. So for the moment I use pd 0.41-4 and that's ok 2009/3/25 thomas thiery matoh...@gmail.com Oh I find this note Current release: Gem 0.91.3 http://gem.iem.at/releases/0.91.3 Released

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote: Yeah, lets not turn a style guide into a style law. Sometimes crossings are not avoidable indeed. Well, I don't just mean that. I also mean that sometimes crossings are clearer than any replacement for them. Often a simple X of wires is much more

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Or making lines that go up for anything but feedback/loops. Well, if you first make sure that most lines are as short as possible, then there's not much need to worry about lines going up. A single-outlet object connected to a single-inlet

[PD] [OT] RME HDSP Multiface (1st gen), PCMCIA cardbus (1st gen), and PCI-to-PCMCIA cardbus (for desktop) for sale

2009-03-25 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
Barely used. If interested, please email me your offer. Originally this thing cost ~$1,200 (with the PCI-to-PCMCIA cardbus for the desktop connectivity). Been used on Linux and Windows. Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology Director, DISIS Interactive Sound Intermedia Studio

Re: [PD] Trouble PD 0.42 - Gem 0.91.3 Tigital - mac osX 10.5.6

2009-03-25 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
thomas thiery wrote: I make a binary from scratch of Gem for Mac osx 10.5.6 and pd 0.42-4 but I have the same problem. did you compile the 0.91.3 sources, or fresh from svn? please file a bug-report at http://sf.net/projects/pd-gem mfga.sdr IOhannes

[PD] [PD-announce] Taller de Algoritmia Abril 2009

2009-03-25 Thread Correa Diego
A la comunidad de Pure Data, Están abiertas las inscripciones al Taller de Algoritmia Abril 2009, en Santiago de Chile. Resumen de la actividad: La orientación del taller es la integración de conocimientos prácticos de programación visual en dos lineas de trabajo: técnicas en arquitectura

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: And one last little story that I just remembered: I didn't realize that [send pd] was even a possibility until recently. I had always seen [; pd dsp 1( and figured messages to pd had to be sent that way. So is this a sign that this part of

Re: [PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Chris McCormick wrote: IIRC, one of their complaints from last year was that our application had too many parts. Next time we should pick just one or two specific tasks and go with them. Maybe with a community vote or whatever. Also, I hate to be cynical, but I can't see

Re: [PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, dmotd wrote: or perhaps a company that relies so heavily on string manipulation considered pd useless? ;) Yeah. It doesn't even have to be deliberate. A search engine company will be populated by the kind of computer programmers who are very very string-centric. Those

Re: [PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

2009-03-25 Thread error developer
i bet if we icluded 'musical data mining' or such thing in there ..we'd win ;) however may be no one will ever get far with this - it's seems to be that kindda target that is set by them for groups to research on and never get far out and be too occupid .. eh.. whatever, might them hear this,

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread Ben Baker-Smith
Hi John, You are correct. Gem does not follow the normal top to bottom rules of PD. I believe its render chain has more to do with the rules of OpenGL than with PD. Sorry I can't give you an easy way of figuring which objects will be processed first. If there is one then I've never heard/read

Re: [PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

2009-03-25 Thread error developer
hm .. i think it's not appropriate to compare pd to programmng languges we do call it a languge, but it's rather more corect to call it like and visual engeneering environment whch hase a set of object or something like that, if you could at least compile them into some sort of binaries - that

[PD] agenda for upcoming book sprint?

2009-03-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey all, I hope I am not jumping the gun or stepping on anyone's toes. I just wanted to open up the discussion about what people are planning on working on during the upcoming book sprint. Currently, I am pretty open to topics, but I was thinking that Gem/PDP/Gridflow could really use

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread chris clepper
There are two types of objects in GEM: pix and OpenGL. Pix objects do work in the top to bottom manner like Pd DSP objects. One thing to keep in mind is that the pix_ objects use 'in place' processing which means that the pixel data is overwritten by each object. For most types of processing

Re: [PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, error developer wrote: i think it's not appropriate to compare pd to programmng languges I believe that even if we try to refrain to compare pd to programming languages, and refrain from calling it a programming language, it still will be compared to programming

Re: [PD] OSCX or mrpeach/osc ?

2009-03-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I'd use the mrpeach objects. oscx is much more limited and unmaintained, unless you want to maintain it :) .hc On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Alvaro wrote: Hi, I'm working on a new patch that uses OSC. I've been using OSCX so far, but then I came accross a page on pdpedia that claims

Re: [PD] What font does PD use?

2009-03-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
The classic is Courier bold. Pd-extended since 0.39.3 uses a normal weight font that is either Bitstream Vera Sans Mono on Windows and GNU/ Linux, and Monaco on Mac OS X. .hc On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Ben Baker-Smith wrote: I'm working on some graphics for PdCon09 to potentially use

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo( To: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@eds.org Cc: Matt Barber brbrof...@gmail.com, pd-list@iem.at Date: Wednesday, March 25,

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
It would be great to have some of this documented better. I mentioned in the book sprint email that there are lots of Gem examples, but there isn't really any text that I could find that introduces these concepts of Gem. So if you do figure this stuff out, please join us for the book

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I understand the point of making that information available, but once you start describing a particular pd concept, don't you stick to one term for the sake of clarity? Well, ideally, perhaps... but I think that it's somewhat hard to do. Perhaps

Re: [PD] stop animation/motion in pd/gem

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, mark edward grimm wrote: that looks pretty elegant and will give it a shot on linux machine... BTW was wondering though if there are any plans to implement gridflow in extended? it would benefit our freshmen students for ease of installation/use on osx machines they now

Re: [PD] words for style guide: rewind and reset

2009-03-25 Thread Luke Iannini
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@eds.org wrote: Hey, I just went thru a bunch of interfaces and noticed a good pattern in wording.  I propose to make this part of the style guide: rewind - go back to the beginning of a chunk of data (used in: textfile, binfile,

Re: [PD] words for style guide: rewind and reset

2009-03-25 Thread marius schebella
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Hey, I just went thru a bunch of interfaces and noticed a good pattern in wording. I propose to make this part of the style guide: rewind - go back to the beginning of a chunk of data (used in: textfile, binfile, msgfile, etc.) reset - clear the data from a

Re: [PD] agenda for upcoming book sprint?

2009-03-25 Thread marius schebella
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Hey all, I hope I am not jumping the gun or stepping on anyone's toes. I just wanted to open up the discussion about what people are planning on working on during the upcoming book sprint. Currently, I am pretty open to topics, but I was thinking that

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote: Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Btw, it's in pd/doc/2.control.examples/10.more.messages.pd , and I'd have trouble considering anything in that folder as being non-basic. I must say, when thinking about the time when I learned

Re: [PD] stop animation/motion in pd/gem

2009-03-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, mark edward grimm wrote: that looks pretty elegant and will give it a shot on linux machine... BTW was wondering though if there are any plans to implement gridflow in extended? it would benefit our freshmen

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo( To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@eds.org, Matt Barber brbrof...@gmail.com,

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: --- On Wed, 3/25/09, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: Well, ideally, perhaps... but I think that it's somewhat hard to do. Perhaps more so when teaching in French (or any other language apart from English), because then you have to deal

Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo( To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@eds.org, Matt Barber brbrof...@gmail.com,

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread John Harrison
This is extremely helpful. I'm starting to get it. Comments/questions inline. chris clepper wrote: There are two types of objects in GEM: pix and OpenGL. Pix objects do work in the top to bottom manner like Pd DSP objects. would [pix_coordinate] be an exception to this? I've been playing

[PD] Darwiin Remote OSC and PD, on Mac

2009-03-25 Thread Nicanor Garcia
Hello. I need some help trying to connect Darwiinremote ( http://code.google.com/p/darwiinosc/downloads/list) Mac program to PD in a friend's computer. I'm tryining to connect it through OSC, but I can't get the PD to receive anything. I set up the same port in both programs, but I think I'm

Re: [PD] Darwiin Remote OSC and PD, on Mac

2009-03-25 Thread marius schebella
you can connect to localhost on port for example. try [dumpOSC ] inside pd and connect a [print] to it to see if you receive your values. marius. Nicanor Garcia wrote: Hello. I need some help trying to connect Darwiinremote (http://code.google.com/p/darwiinosc/downloads/list) Mac

Re: [PD] still struggling with basic understanding of Gem dataflow

2009-03-25 Thread marius schebella
hi, I think your pix_coordinate idea was not that bad (see attached patch). but that is probably not what you want?? on the other hand, using pdp_rotate and converting twice is really eating up a lot of cpu. pdp is a different world again and the bridge between pdp and gem is buggy (your patch