Re: [PD] Windows nightly builds are back

2007-12-05 Thread João Miguel Pais
by the way, when installing the files and the file already exists dialog, please add a always button. it's a bit uneffective having to press the y key for several minutes, until all files are there. Uninstalling first is a solution to this. Please file a bug report on that though. I

Re: [PD] 0.41.08 - font size

2007-12-05 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, patrick hat gesagt: // patrick wrote: i just compiled vanilla pd 0.41.08 but the fonts are not okay; screenshot attached. I looked really, really hard, but what's not okay in the screenshot? me too :-) i think the labels for the gui-objects (toggles) are

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
vade wrote: Personally I find that use of segmented patch coords can *increase* readability in patches that are well laid out. I have a much easier time following segmented patch coords that are laid out with care than a similarly grouped /laid out patch sans segmentation. while i

Re: [PD] Meaning of -noprefs

2007-12-05 Thread Peter Plessas
Dear List, Simon Thanks Simon for your kind reply and explanations So although there might be space for calling that behavior an additional but questionable 'feature', i consider it an inconsistency in user interface design. Preferences are preferences, whether they are in a .pdrc file or in

[PD] windows nightly non-build

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Peach
Now the dependencies are not there so it won't build: makefile.mingw:297: makefile.dependencies: No such file or directory Martin ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] 0.41.08 - font size

2007-12-05 Thread Miller Puckette
Yep, this is fixed in my version (I think) but Ihaven't yet been able to test it on all platforms (which I prefer to do before releasing new 'tests'... cheers Miller On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:17:33PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig

Re: [PD] Windows nightly builds are back

2007-12-05 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:24 +0100, João Miguel Pais wrote: by the way, when installing the files and the file already exists dialog, please add a always button. it's a bit uneffective having to press the y key for several minutes, until all files are there. Uninstalling first is a

Re: [PD] Windows nightly builds are back

2007-12-05 Thread João Miguel Pais
what does libdir_loader: added cyclone to the global classpath after all, you don't have to care about messages, that are _not_ errors. my problem was that I couldn't say if that was an error or not. I couldn't say anything at all about it, in fact. in the previous version I understood

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread B. Bogart
Ah segmented patch coords again. How about a real solution to the problem of routing objects in diagrams? In PD this could mean a few things: 1. Best patching practise!!! Often you can choose not to overlap objects and connections just by arranging objects as the connections force you to, which

Re: [PD] Windows nightly builds are back

2007-12-05 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roman Haefeli wrote: Pd 0.40 adds canvas-local namespaces. that message means a library has been loaded into the global namespace. ok. but maybe it might be nice to replace it with something in english. it's nicer to users that don't care about those details. i don't

[PD] Gemwinow error

2007-12-05 Thread Rebecca Schatz
Hi. When trying to use gemwin, I keep getting an error in the pd window which says: 'GemWindow Activate err = 0'. When this happens I am unable to start rendering. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance. Rebecca. ___ PD-list@iem.at

Re: [PD] Object to store images and movies.

2007-12-05 Thread Javier Garcia
Wellcome Donal, i think you are speaking about a to much complex aplication to be and object (at least nowadays). You can construct that application with pd, but start from the begining with the doc. br. GARFF From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [PD] Object to store images and movies.

2007-12-05 Thread Donal Carey
Hi Derek Thanks for the reply - to follow on from your info, can I create the database in PD or would I have to use some other program and then read from that using PD ? Cheers Donal - Original Message - From: Derek Holzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donal Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [PD] Gemwinow error

2007-12-05 Thread chris clepper
That message means there is no error in creating the gemwin. Do the example patches work? On Dec 5, 2007 12:31 PM, Rebecca Schatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. When trying to use gemwin, I keep getting an error in the pd window which says: 'GemWindow Activate err = 0'. When this happens I am

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread chris clepper
Segmented patch cords fall somewhere between deferred maintenance and turd polish on the continuum of practicality. Of course in Max you can always resort to sweeping the whole mess under the rug as a last resort. Stick that in your revolution! On Dec 5, 2007 12:42 PM, vade [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Peach
B. Bogart wrote: Ah segmented patch coords again. How about a real solution to the problem of routing objects in diagrams? In PD this could mean a few things: 1. Best patching practise!!! Often you can choose not to overlap objects and connections just by arranging objects as the connections

[PD] Object to store images and movies.

2007-12-05 Thread Donal Carey
Hi This is my first post to the list so I'll do a quick intro and backround. My name's Donal Carey and I'm currently studying for a Masters in Multimedia Systems in Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). I'm starting work on a PD project for use by DJ's in a live performance context. The basic

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread vade
I say we meet in a back alleyway and beat the crap out of one another over this. :) On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:04 PM, chris clepper wrote: Segmented patch cords fall somewhere between deferred maintenance and turd polish on the continuum of practicality. Of course in Max you can always

[PD] Pdpedia Spanish (castellano)

2007-12-05 Thread Jaime Oliver
Hi there, one more: [osc~] http://wiki.puredata.info/es/osc%7E For now, the list is adc~ line line~ listosc~ -- Jaime E Oliver LR [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.realidadvisual.org/jaimeoliver www-crca.ucsd.edu/ www.realidadvisual.org 9168 Regents Rd. Apt. G La Jolla, CA 92037 USA

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread chris clepper
Segmenting, coloring, and/or hiding the patch cords aren't going to magically make every patch clear and easy to follow. Once a patch gets to a certain level of density it is time to rethink how the whole thing is structured or find a different tool. Abstractions and subpatches help quite a bit,

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Chris McCormick wrote: I think the key point to take from the whole discussion is that Max/MSP users have a choice, whilst under Pd we have no choice. It's all very well justifying how great it is to not have patch chords, but the lack of that feature/bug definately annoys

Re: [PD] Pd + asterisk?

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
So Shawn Van Every and I just did a brainstorm of ideas for using Pd and Asterisk together. There is a lot of potential there, especially if a couple key points are addressed. Shawn can speak to the technical details better than me, he uses it a lot more. I'll bet there are others who

Re: [PD] Pd + asterisk?

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: drh270 wrote: This sounds great! Cool, thanks for the interest. :) Chris, in an earlier post mentioned using OSC, he was using a Python script, so communicating via OSC may be a starting point. Yeah, I saw that. Thanks for bringing up

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread vade
Yeah, giving people a CHOICE is certainly condescending, what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] you do realize not everyone who uses PD is knowledgeable in the languages, apis and underlying code base to make the modifications they may request. If anyone is being condescending, it is you with your

Re: [PD] Windows nightly builds are back

2007-12-05 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Pd 0.40 adds canvas-local namespaces. that message means a library has been loaded into the global namespace. Is it possible to load a library of several classes, or of one class and several aliases, into a canvas namespace? (What about a

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread vade
Dear god, please, no. no no no no no. No gradiated patch coords. *please* I would not mind self routing patch coords, but somehow, whenever a computer/algorithm/programmer tries to do things for me, like intelligently re-arrange x, it ends up getting in my way. I suspect this will be the

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 14:33 -0500, vade wrote: Yeah, giving people a CHOICE is certainly condescending, what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] calm down. i have the impression, that you completely misunderstood matju's point. or am i misunderstanding something? i think, he meant, that for (lazy) devs it

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 5, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Martin Peach wrote: B. Bogart wrote: Ah segmented patch coords again. How about a real solution to the problem of routing objects in diagrams? In PD this could mean a few things: 1. Best patching practise!!! Often you can choose not to overlap objects

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, chris clepper wrote: Segmenting, coloring, and/or hiding the patch cords aren't going to magically make every patch clear and easy to follow. I'm not expecting magic. I've never expected magic. I don't see what's the relationship between segmenting/coloring and magic. I

Re: [PD] Windows nightly builds are back

2007-12-05 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 16:11 +0100, João Miguel Pais wrote: what does libdir_loader: added cyclone to the global classpath after all, you don't have to care about messages, that are _not_ errors. my problem was that I couldn't say if that was an error or not. I couldn't say anything

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Daniel Wilcox
I consider the lack of segmented patch chords a nifty feature that keeps MAX users away. I started with PD and am pretty well comfortable in just laying out my patches in an efficient manner. As previously stated, there's always [t a] if you ever need a segment. However, if that is one of the

Re: [PD] pd-etended AMD64 build

2007-12-05 Thread Myo
sorry to bump this older thread, but I'm still having the same trouble on a debian lenny/testing amd64 box. I ran autoconf, and changed the -m32 flags, but still get the same errors as others have been getting. I'm wondering if I have the right sources. can someone point me to the most recent

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Peach
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: And how about patch cords that start out one colour and end up another with a smooth blend all the way along? Then you could identify different cords as well as know which way they were going. Color really makes things stand out, especially in a black and white

Re: [PD] Pdpedia Spanish (castellano)

2007-12-05 Thread raul diaz
Hi all! I have edited the Spanish Help wiki page: - http://wiki.puredata.info/es/Pdpedia:Ayuda but there is a problem with the link to this page from the English Help wiki page: - http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Help:Contents if you click in Español on other languages bottom left box, this link

[PD] SQLite V0.13

2007-12-05 Thread Mike McGonagle
Hello all, Just wanted to let people know that I have put up another release of this. Basically, this external allows you to create a local SQL database file, and use it to store any data you might need. This version only supports data in Floats or Symbols. The next thing to tackle is storing

Re: [PD] VLC rc connection

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:31 AM, wolfgang schwarzenbrunner wrote: Has anyone tried the mrpeach network objects? My guess is that they might solve this problem. [tcpclient] sounds like the most likely candidate. .hc in which lib do i find those objects?... The pdpedia can actually

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roman Haefeli wrote: calm down. i have the impression, that you completely misunderstood matju's point. or am i misunderstanding something? i think, he meant, that for (lazy) devs it is easier to find a ('condescending') reason to not implement a certain feature than just

Re: [PD] Windows nightly builds are back

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 5, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Pd 0.40 adds canvas-local namespaces. that message means a library has been loaded into the global namespace. Is it possible to load a library of several classes, or of one class and

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Steffen Leve Poulsen
Hi guys As usual a little slow here. I use a segmented patchcord from time to time, its a dummy [sg] object with one inlet and one outlet inserted at the segmentpoint. With PD 0.40-2 you can set the props to 4x4pix and hide objectname and arguments. There's a png (120k)here

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread marius schebella
I am trying to subsume what I read so far. A - READABILITY: readability means that when you look at a patch, you understand its logic and dataflow. readability is important for programmers, when looking at their own patches, but also when looking at other peoples patches. readability is a

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, vade wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: If the people want it, why not give it to them? Because it's easier to write a condescending justification for the lack of segmented patchcords than to write the code for segmented patchcords. Yeah, giving

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread vade
My apologies. I did infact mis-read this. Sorry Mattieu, I shall put on my fucking duddle cap on immediately - thats what I get for splitting my attention. On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, vade wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Mathieu Bouchard

Re: [PD] Pdpedia Spanish (castellano)

2007-12-05 Thread raul diaz
...I have included a link to Spanish translation on [osc~] english wiki: http://wiki.puredata.info/en/osc%7E Saludos! 2007/12/5, raul diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! I have edited the Spanish Help wiki page: - http://wiki.puredata.info/es/Pdpedia:Ayuda but there is a problem with the

[PD] Max Pd

2007-12-05 Thread Andrew Brouse
Hello Pd and Max folks, I am doing a presentation (tomorrow!... so this request is a bit late!) on differences between Max and Pd as tools for music and media art. I am interested in hearing: 1. from people who actively use both 2. about less-obvious advantages/disadvantages of one or the

Re: [PD] Meaning of -noprefs

2007-12-05 Thread Miller Puckette
Hi all, I think -noprefs should stop .pdrc as well, since it's in the spirit of being able to find out whether a problem is coming from the configuration or from Pd itself. If it's reasonably easy to do I'll change that. That said, I think .pdrc should be regarded as deprecated, unless there's

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Phil Stone
Martin Peach wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Color really makes things stand out, especially in a black and white patch. So my question is, what would this color fade be communicating? A fade would stand out even more than a solid color, IMHO. What is that fade communicating

Re: [PD] Pdpedia Spanish (castellano)

2007-12-05 Thread raul diaz
...and a new object: -http://wiki.puredata.info/es/loadbang The new list is: adc~ line line~ list osc~ loadbang 2007/12/5, raul diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...I have included a link to Spanish translation on [osc~] english wiki: http://wiki.puredata.info/en/osc%7E Saludos! 2007/12/5,

Re: [PD] 0.41.08 - font size

2007-12-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Frank Barknecht wrote: I looked really, really hard, but what's not okay in the screenshot? me too :-) i think the labels for the gui-objects (toggles) are a bit tiny. Ah, okay. They are so tiny, that I didn't even

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Chris McCormick
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:39:23PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Dec 4, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Chris McCormick wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:29:00PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Btw.: Even many Max users prefer non-segmented cords, don't they? I think the key point to take from

Re: [PD] pd-etended AMD64 build

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
0.39.3 is not worth building as 64-bit, unless you don't want to use arrays or data structures at all. Even 0.40.3 has problems with 64- bit, AFAIK. Then who knows about all the externals. Post the error messages here, and we'll see what we can do :D .hc On Dec 5, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Myo

Re: [PD] windows nightly non-build

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Ok, I just committed some things to fix thigns. It should recreate the makefile.dependencies after that error, it did in my tests. .hc On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Martin Peach wrote: Now the dependencies are not there so it won't build: makefile.mingw:297: makefile.dependencies: No such

Re: [PD] open recent

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Patrice Colet wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : On Dec 4, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Patrice Colet wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : On Dec 4, 2007, at 4:20 AM, Patrice Colet wrote: Hans Roels a écrit : I also think this would be a simple but very handy tool,

Re: [PD] 0.41.08 - font size

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Frank Barknecht wrote: I looked really, really hard, but what's not okay in the screenshot? me too :-) i think the labels for the gui-objects (toggles) are a bit tiny.

Re: [PD] Object to store images and movies.

2007-12-05 Thread Derek Holzer
Well, by database (in quotes) I meant a system to organize your clips. Yes, you can do it in PD, it just takes some doing. Personally, I use different dataflow objects like [coll] and the iem_matrix objects to organize data into some kind of table or list, along with [makefilename] or

Re: [PD] Music made with Pd

2007-12-05 Thread star morin
cool! i really enjoyed the headphone festival - i participated this year as well in the san francisco session as lna (aka low noise amplifire) i performed using only a patch i made in pd and a home-brew 24 element OSC controller. pd patch is 4 instances of one abstraction - a sample-slicer/

Re: [PD] Max Pd

2007-12-05 Thread sven
At 23:41 05.12.2007, Andrew Brouse wrote: Hello Pd and Max folks, I am doing a presentation (tomorrow!... so this request is a bit late!) on differences between Max and Pd as tools for music and media art. I am interested in hearing: 1. from people who actively use both 2. about less-obvious

Re: [PD] Moveable Type - powered by Pd

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
In case anyone is interested, there is now a newspaper article with a video about this piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/arts/design/25vide.html .hc On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: If any of you happens to be in New York City, drop by the lobby of the

Re: [PD] control-click in edit mode is gone

2007-12-05 Thread Tim Boykett
On 04/12/2007, at 6:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: My intention is to fix Pd to allow direct copy and pasting in object boxes so we can ditch the Text Editor all together. hear hear! this is one of the elements that keeps frustrating people I introduce to PD. splat-V in an object box

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Tim Boykett
Of course we should then the whole way and allow general splines as patch cords like in . much sexier. not even worth 2c tm On 05/12/2007, at 2:36 AM, Chris McCormick wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:29:00PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Btw.: Even many Max users prefer non-segmented

Re: [PD] 0.41.08 - font size

2007-12-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, patrick hat gesagt: // patrick wrote: i just compiled vanilla pd 0.41.08 but the fonts are not okay; screenshot attached. I looked really, really hard, but what's not okay in the screenshot? Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ __footils.org__

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Phil Stone wrote: Martin Peach wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Color really makes things stand out, especially in a black and white patch. So my question is, what would this color fade be communicating? A fade would stand out even more than a solid

Re: [PD] Moveable Type - powered by Pd

2007-12-05 Thread palmieri, ricardo
hi hans. this screens is a comercial product, or a special project? do u have more info about it? ah is alex posada in the earstudio moveable type album? hasta. palmieri 2007/12/5, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In case anyone is interested, there is now a newspaper article with

Re: [PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD MAX)

2007-12-05 Thread Michal Seta
On Dec 4, 2007 10:09 AM, marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a big problem in max is that there is no undo for segmented patchcords. once segmented, you can only delete them and redraw to make them not segmented. That's not true. Ctl-click on a segmented patchcord, unsegments it. I

Re: [PD] Moveable Type - powered by Pd

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
It is running PDa 0.4 for sound and custom python to control the text: http://gige.xdv.org/pda/ it uses these boards: http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/ts7250-spec-h.html It uses this distro of linux: http://www.embeddedarm.com/linux/main.htm We are currently writing a paper about it for a