Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: In keeping with the FLOSSmanuals methodology, we need a story to tell when introducing lists. I have the intro done, but now we need a story (i.e. developing an example program). I was thinking that a story

Re: [PD] iemguts on windows

2009-04-06 Thread Georg Werner
hi, @iohannes: thanks for the hint: i also installed automake and autoconf @jonathan: see http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS g. IOhannes m zmoelnig: Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Yes, I have msys installed. Would it make a difference where pd is installed? no not at all. the makefile uses filter and

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread padawan12
This has always confused me, and even in my book I took a simplified approach to explaining lists. It is definitely worth working hard on this passage to choose clear and agreed words. a. Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: In keeping with the

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Derek Holzer
This is all well and good, but no new Pd user is going to read all this, let alone know what to do with it ;-) For the FLOSS Manuals book, I've asked people to be less theoretical and more concentrated on real life examples which do real life things, rather than extended lists of taxonomies.

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Derek Holzer hat gesagt: // Derek Holzer wrote: This is all well and good, but no new Pd user is going to read all this, let alone know what to do with it ;-) It was more for Andy. ;) For the FLOSS book I would just silently use the term list-message whenever you talk about

[PD] mapping: path setting hell

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, why is it, that to be able to simply read the help file for center_point in mapping I have to add four (4!) paths to my .pdrc or the command line? Here are the paths I need to set and their reasons: 1) SVN/externals - otherwise [center_point] isn't found 2) SVN/externals/mapping - to

Re: [PD] Pd suddenly crashing

2009-04-06 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
David F. Place wrote: Hello: I have been using Pd quite happily under linux. Suddenly it will not start at all. This is the error message I get: what do you mean by all of a sudden? after a Pd-upgrade? after a system-upgrade? after a hardware upgrade? after playing around with some

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Steffen Juul
On 06/04/2009, at 8.49, Frank Barknecht wrote: I would also strongly recommend to use a consistent terminology for lists that are not lists in the Pd sense: I would call them meta-messages just like Miller does, and if there's ambiguity the manual should call proper lists list-messages.

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jonathan Wilkes hat gesagt: // Jonathan Wilkes wrote: So is it a bug that [20 foo(--[print] posts 20 foo instead of list 20 foo? Message-rule #1: Never believe anything [print] prints. Message-rule #2: messages starting with a number don't need any other selector like list or float,

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: So is it a bug that [20 foo(--[print] posts 20 foo instead of list 20 foo? no it's a feature to not confuse the noob (at the cost of confusing post-noobs) fgmasdr IOhannes smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Steffen Juul hat gesagt: // Steffen Juul wrote: On 06/04/2009, at 8.49, Frank Barknecht wrote: I would also strongly recommend to use a consistent terminology for lists that are not lists in the Pd sense: I would call them meta-messages just like Miller does, and if there's

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
So is it a bug that [20 foo(--[print] posts 20 foo instead of list 20 foo? -Jonathan --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org wrote: From: Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org Subject: Re: [PD] a story for Lists To: pd list pd-list@iem.at Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 10:54 AM

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Derek Holzer
Thanks Frank. This was a question which came up in discussion between Hans and I yesterday, which was on the verge of getting very confusing! I think this suggestion might help Hans with his writing. best! Derek Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Derek Holzer hat gesagt: // Derek Holzer wrote:

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk hat gesagt: // padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote: This has always confused me, and even in my book I took a simplified approach to explaining lists. It is definitely worth working hard on this passage to choose clear and agreed words. I think, the main

Re: [PD] , , , || etc

2009-04-06 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: So a library like 'audiomath' would then have audiomath/libaudiomath.pd_linux. Normally, audiomath/libaudiomath.pd_linux would only include shared code, but for this case, it would also include the ~ class, etc. i guess you meant to name it either

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

2009-04-06 Thread Chris McCormick
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:27:07PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Chris McCormick wrote: Then I'd like the DSP stuff not to be a special case, but rather a library you can import. It's not much of a feature. It might be a sign of a more modular design, but what

Re: [PD] Pd suddenly crashing

2009-04-06 Thread David F. Place
Amazingly, it just started working again. I think a likely explanation is that my soundcard got into a bizarre state and needed to be power cycled. Thanks for your help and sorry for the bother. On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:33 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: David F. Place wrote: Hello:

Re: [PD] mapping: path setting hell

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: 1) SVN/externals - otherwise [center_point] isn't found 2) SVN/externals/mapping - to find [mapping/reverse] and [mapping/disjoin] These two were meant to have reversed reasons. Ciao -- Frank

Re: [PD] , , , || etc

2009-04-06 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Martin Peach wrote: Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Martin Peach wrote: The shell's [] (/usr/bin/test) also has -gt,-lt,-ge,-le,-eq,-ne, which it uses for numeric comparisons, whereas it uses ,,=,=,==,!= for string comparisons. It also needs both by design. [snip] Oh I see. But

[PD] online tool or free soft for calculating partials

2009-04-06 Thread Derek Holzer
I'm writing a tutorial on using sinesum to generate wavetables for the FLOSS Manual. In typical fashion, the current all_about_arrays documentation merely (lazily?) directs users to Google partials to find out how to build the waveforms. I'd like to point to specific resource. So, is there any

Re: [PD] Pd seriell printers

2009-04-06 Thread brandt
Hi Mathieu, Hi all after all searchung the papers, reading about pins and ESC/P, i got the printer now, so i could start to test. and it could be parallel, usb or serial. I would prefer serial, but if there are better solutions? could you give me a glue how to start? i could not find out how

Re: [PD] online tool or free soft for calculating partials

2009-04-06 Thread Derek Holzer
I'm thinking something like the Applet here: http://www.eecircle.com/applets/001/001.html but maybe with more possible waveforms. D. Derek Holzer wrote: I'm writing a tutorial on using sinesum to generate wavetables for the FLOSS Manual. In typical fashion, the current all_about_arrays

Re: [PD] , , , || etc

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Peach
Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: Martin Peach wrote: Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Martin Peach wrote: The shell's [] (/usr/bin/test) also has -gt,-lt,-ge,-le,-eq,-ne, which it uses for numeric comparisons, whereas it uses ,,=,=,==,!= for string comparisons. It also needs both by

Re: [PD] Pd seriell printers

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Peach
bra...@subnet.at wrote: Hi Mathieu, Hi all after all searchung the papers, reading about pins and ESC/P, i got the printer now, so i could start to test. and it could be parallel, usb or serial. I would prefer serial, but if there are better solutions? could you give me a glue how to

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I think that part makes sense. I think this is the bug: [list 20 foo( | [print] This prints: 20 foo it should print list 20 foo .hc On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:30 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: So is it a bug that [20 foo(--[print] posts 20 foo instead of list 20 foo? -Jonathan --- On Mon,

Re: [PD] online tool or free soft for calculating partials

2009-04-06 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:15 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote: I'm writing a tutorial on using sinesum to generate wavetables for the FLOSS Manual. In typical fashion, the current all_about_arrays documentation merely (lazily?) directs users to Google partials to find out how to build the

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
For this book, I think its good to avoid the confusing part altogether, at least until much later. The lists chapter can work with lists of numbers only. Then there is little confusion. So if there was a good story based on lists of numbers, it would guide the beginner thru the

Re: [PD] online tool or free soft for calculating partials

2009-04-06 Thread Derek Holzer
Thanks Roman, I'd love it if you could look at the Generating Waveforms and Antialiasing chapters ion the FLOSS Manual a bit later on after I have time to day to work on them and give me some feedback ;-) best! D Roman Haefeli wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:15 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote:

Re: [PD] mapping: path setting hell

2009-04-06 Thread cyrille henry
Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: 1) SVN/externals - otherwise [center_point] isn't found 2) SVN/externals/mapping - to find [mapping/reverse] and [mapping/disjoin] These two

Re: [PD] mapping: path setting hell

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: 1) SVN/externals - otherwise [center_point] isn't found 2) SVN/externals/mapping - to find

[PD] sourceforge bug tracking and Vanilla PD

2009-04-06 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
Hi, I've just experimented a bug about the [keyup] object not working correctly under Windows, in PD Vanilla 0.42-4 So I've gone to the Bug Tracker and done a search. Guess what? Not only have I found that I already reported this bug myself almost 2 years ago (1728414), but that THE BUG

[PD] route float

2009-04-06 Thread marius schebella
hi, I am trying to parse shader programs to automatically generate user interfaces (for uniform variables). I have to differentiate between messages like [uniform float value1( [uniform vec2 value2( [something totally different( | [route uniform] | [route float vec2] | [symbol\ The problem

Re: [PD] online tool or free soft for calculating partials

2009-04-06 Thread Derek Holzer
Hi Roman, these are good, but too much complex dataflow for beginner tutorial right now! I wrote my way around the problem a bit, have a look if you are interested: http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PureData/GeneratingWaveforms also here:

Re: [PD] , , , || etc

2009-04-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Martin Peach wrote: Oh I see. But that notation is only standard in shell languages and is not going to help someone guess the name of the object or what it does, especially if they are not used to english. If they are so much not used to English, then how do you justify

Re: [PD] route float

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote: I am trying to parse shader programs to automatically generate user interfaces (for uniform variables). I have to differentiate between messages like [uniform float value1( [uniform vec2 value2( [something totally different(

Re: [PD] route float

2009-04-06 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Frank Barknecht wrote: Is value1 a number or something else, like a symbol? if it's a symbol, then it's a literal, which translates to symbol in Pd-lingo. you are trying to use a float-message with a symbol argument like float abc which is, uhm, not supported, at least not in [route] or

Re: [PD] , , , || etc

2009-04-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Martin Peach martin.pe...@sympatico.ca wrote: Oh I see. But that notation is only standard in shell languages and is not going to help someone guess the name of the object or what it does, especially if they are not used to

Re: [PD] , , , || etc

2009-04-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: also at least one assembly language: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/68000_Assembly#Conditional_tests Yeah, but if Martin thinks that shells and Perl both don't matter, then anything lower-level won't matter (if you don't think of Pd as being

Re: [PD] supported formats of pix_image

2009-04-06 Thread marius schebella
cyrille henry wrote: marius schebella a écrit : Hi, I'm working on the GEM part of the FLOSS manual. got stuck with the supported file formats of pix_image. the help patch says *.tif, *jpg, *.png. but it seems that *.bmp and *.gif are also supported. is this depending on the OS? it does not

Re: [PD] supported formats of pix_image

2009-04-06 Thread cyrille henry
marius schebella a écrit : Hi, I'm working on the GEM part of the FLOSS manual. got stuck with the supported file formats of pix_image. the help patch says *.tif, *jpg, *.png. but it seems that *.bmp and *.gif are also supported. is this depending on the OS? it does not only depend on the

[PD] supported formats of pix_image

2009-04-06 Thread marius schebella
Hi, I'm working on the GEM part of the FLOSS manual. got stuck with the supported file formats of pix_image. the help patch says *.tif, *jpg, *.png. but it seems that *.bmp and *.gif are also supported. is this depending on the OS? can someone confirm that all these file types are supported?

Re: [PD] , , , || etc

2009-04-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Martin Peach wrote: Pd is a higher level language that trades off efficiency for a more human interface. Yes, it's definitely more human to take a simple formula that fits in a small space and explode it into a network of little components with long names for the sake of

Re: [PD] route float

2009-04-06 Thread marius schebella
Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote: I am trying to parse shader programs to automatically generate user interfaces (for uniform variables). I have to differentiate between messages like [uniform float value1( [uniform vec2 value2( [something

Re: [PD] route float

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Frank Barknecht wrote: Is value1 a number or something else, like a symbol? if it's a symbol, then it's a literal, which translates to symbol in Pd-lingo. I assumed Marius was using value1 as a placeholder. you are

Re: [PD] Multiblob and matrices...

2009-04-06 Thread Simon Ball
Thanks for the response. However, I am still struggling with this. I probably need a much more basic explanation. Sorry. I assume that the patches you've provided (greatly appreciated) collate the data in someway in order for me to be able to unpack it? However, I'm not sure that I even

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

2009-04-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Chris McCormick wrote: No, that's not at all the reason I think that a format like JSON or YAML would be useful. It's more to do with patches being more widely and easily parseable, mashable, etc. It's to do with interoperating with more programs than just Pd itself. Sure,

Re: [PD] supported formats of pix_image

2009-04-06 Thread Derek Holzer
Pd FLOSS assumes Pd Extended, so it's Quicktime on Windows and Mac. Linux is more complicated, based on the libs it's compiled against. I'll get Hans to send the compiler flags in a sec... D. cyrille henry wrote: marius schebella a écrit : Hi, I'm working on the GEM part of the FLOSS

Re: [PD] route float

2009-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote: dunno, maybe Pd is not made for text parsing?? IMO it isn't. Can't you do the parsing somewhere else, like in a pdlua object? Much more comfortable for text. Ciao -- Frank ___

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: So is it a bug that [20 foo(--[print] posts 20 foo instead of list 20 foo? No, it's just a shortcut. _ _ __ ___ _ _ _ ... | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal,

Re: [PD] online tool or free soft for calculating partials

2009-04-06 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:35 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote: Hi Roman, these are good, but too much complex dataflow for beginner tutorial right now! frankly, that is what i actually thought as well. I wrote my way around the problem a bit, have a look if you are interested:

Re: [PD] route float

2009-04-06 Thread marius schebella
Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote: dunno, maybe Pd is not made for text parsing?? IMO it isn't. Can't you do the parsing somewhere else, like in a pdlua object? Much more comfortable for text. Ciao good idea, will check it out. can't

Re: [PD] route float

2009-04-06 Thread cyrille henry
yep, not very confortable. but i was very surprised when i noticed that performing search and replace on very big text file was almost instantaneous when made with pd, but would take many minute with gedit. Cyrille Frank Barknecht a écrit : Hallo, marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius

Re: [PD] supported formats of pix_image

2009-04-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Here's the result from ./configure on the Debian/lenny machine: Result: Target : Gem.pd_linux Objects: Base Controls Geos Manips Nongeos Particles Pixes openGL Configuration: Compiler : g++ CXXFLAGS : -g -O2 -fPIC

[PD] auto 1 loops pix_film (and pix_movie?)

2009-04-06 Thread marius schebella
Hi, the help patch sais that auto 1 will not loop the movie, but actually it does. someone want to comment on this? thanks, marius. ps. not sure if this applies to pix_movie, too, because I don't use it on osx. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list

Re: [PD] , , , || etc

2009-04-06 Thread Thomas Mayer
Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: Martin Peach wrote: Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Martin Peach wrote: The shell's [] (/usr/bin/test) also has -gt,-lt,-ge,-le,-eq,-ne, which it uses for numeric comparisons, whereas it uses ,,=,=,==,!= for string comparisons. It also needs both by

Re: [PD] auto 1 loops pix_film (and pix_movie?)

2009-04-06 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
marius schebella wrote: Hi, the help patch sais that auto 1 will not loop the movie, but actually it does. someone want to comment on this? it's a bug. mgadsr IOhannes smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ Pd-list@iem.at

Re: [PD] supported formats of pix_image

2009-04-06 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Derek Holzer wrote: Pd FLOSS assumes Pd Extended, so it's Quicktime on Windows and Mac. no afair, only on OSX, QuickTime is used for image reading. on w32 you have libjpeg and libtiff support. on linux you have ImageMagick. the reason why quicktime is not (optionally) used on w32 is beyond my

Re: [PD] a story for Lists

2009-04-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at wrote: From: IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] a story for Lists To: pd list pd-list@iem.at Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 11:41 AM Jonathan Wilkes wrote: So is it a bug that [20 foo(--[print] posts 20 foo