On Monday, Apr 5, 2004, at 15:56 America/New_York, carmen wrote:
re:
HKLM/CLASSES_ROOT/CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/PURE-DATA/PD/USERDATA/PREFS/ AUDIODEV...and to tweak a setting, you open up regedit, do a search that takes
30 seconds to complete..and of course if you decide to reinstall
windows or change machines, wave goodbye to your settings unless you
manually exported it to a file..i think windows is great, but the
registry is certainly not in the list of reasons...
I really think we should avoid using the registry unless absolutely
necessary. It generally doesn't make things easier in a cross-platform
app like this, and its messy, and will break drag-n-drop installing.
Text files are much more flexible and easier to deal with, even on
Windows.
so it seems everyone is particular to a certain flavour of storing
user configuration data, but nobody has an opinion on storing data
after the program is actually launched -- "pool" is great, but you
dont get sick of cabling/sending/recieving stuff into it all the time
? the little clicky-box thing i remember from playing aroudn w/ max
was quite cool, well that & the 'randomize parameters' feature in
samplitude.. no idea on how difficult this would be to do, but it
seems an app named 'pure data' should be able to take a snapshot of
all the current numbers/control data (what, 10K of ram?) for later
retrival, exporting to file, building up a sequence of snapshots to
morph between in live situations, or storing for later analysis, > etc...
Have you checked out the [state] object? It does this, albeit it
doesn't save the state of every GUI obj. But its better than nothing.
.hc
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