For the moment I'm planning to just put an attempt at documentation for
slop~ on my own page and point to it from the slop~ help file (which will require fixing Pd to be able to open URLs).
This is what I don't get. How would you "fix Pd" to open URLs? With the new [pdcontrol] object?
cheers
Yep. At the moment, I'm thinking of having it take an "open" message to open a file in the OS, a "fetch" or "httpget" or something to open a URL, and a "system" to run a program asynchronously and return its standard output as Pd messages. Maybe also a message to open a program and keep it open so that Pd can send it stuff as input and collect the output. All this would be kicked up to teh Tcl/Tk layer, so none of it would be "real-time".
Also high time to be able to get the patch's containing directory using only Pd vanilla. I think there are 10 or 20 other things this object should eventually do!
cheers M