On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:
Howdy all,
David Powers wrote:
Actually, once you get used to PD, max patches typically look far
less 'logical', in my opinion.Actually, the fact that on-screen position affects order of operations at all is very illogical if you ask me. It can get especially
confusing when sends and receives get involved. If the subpatch with the receive is nested three layers deep on the left hand side of the screen,
but the send is on the right, when does it do it's thing? (Don't ask me, I've never really used MAX...) And if moving that subpatch a few pixels to the right can change the functioning of an entire patch, that is a
very fundamental flaw for sure!Getting used to [trigger] is fundamental to using PD. It confuses the hell out of workshop participants the first time you explain it,
but by the end every one of them has usually come up to me asking me to sort out an order of operations problem that can be easily solved by
using it.
Do you have any good examples to illustrate that? I wrote this one,
but it's a bit boring:
http://pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/pure-data/doc/ tutorials/intro/16.ordering_messages.pd?revision=1.4
.hc
best, d.
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