On Don, 2016-10-06 at 16:39 +0100, José Rafael Subía Valdez wrote:
I dont know if it has been discussed, I have searched the archives but didnt find anything simliar.
would there be a way to write a META DATA section at the end of a .pd file? I guess this is more of a request. But what if there was a META DATA section available to record things that would be "binded" (don't know if "bound" is the word) to the file. Maybe this could be an open - available- part of the pd file for users. I have been trying to do this in PD by simply writing at the end of the file and then with the [text] object or any similar go to the section where I would have my meta data. The problem is that pd erases this section when saving the file.
thoughts?
Yes. Have a look at help patches of many libraries (for instance zexy or osc). They do use meta data by putting comments into a subpatch named [pd META]. This has two advantages over what you propose:
- You can edit/add them with Pd
- You can easily parse them with Pd (with [text], for instance)
netpd uses a similar kind of meta tags for declaring version, dependencies and other stuff. The only difference is that the subpatch is named [pd NETPD 2 0] (2 0 being the version of the meta data format) and it uses message boxes instead of comments. Check [netpd-properties] if you're interested in seeing how such a meta tag parser could be implemented in Pd.
https://github.com/reduzent/netpd
Roman