Hi,
IMO flext makes externals programming really straightforward (compared to plain pd externals programming at least): everything is clearer and the code is far more readable. Once learned how to use it, the porting of my pd externals has been straightforward and fast. Definitely worth learning it!
Stefano
On Tue, February 20, 2007 9:58, Eric Lyon said:
Hi Ico,
If you want to move an external from MaxMSP to MaxMSP/Pd, I developed another approach which is far less elegant than Thomas Grill's flext, but may be easier when you are starting with an existing MaxMSP code base. The basic idea is to use #ifdefs at the few places where MaxMSP and Pd code diverge, and a single header to wrap the different headers used for the two programs. The result is a single code file that will compile into either Pd or MaxMSP. You can see examples of this here:
http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~elyon/LyonSoftware/Pd/
Best,
Eric