--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] jMax Phoenix To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at, gridflow-dev@artengine.ca Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 8:46 PM On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca
wrote:
Btw I started coding [#expr] last week... but I
think that
it will take a long time to finish coding it.
Great!
- [#expr 3 / 2] ?
At this point 1.5, and I think I will keep it that way, unless I require everything to default to being a grid. I wondered whether I ought to split between a float-centric version called [gf/expr] and a grid-centric version called [#expr], or have everything together in the same version. At this point, though, I only have plain floats.
I prefer your current way to the Max/MSP-oriented way that [expr] does it. I find the [expr] way particularly ill-suited to Pd since Pd strips away unnecessary decimals and decimal places, thus making it look like it's Max-compatible when, depending on where the user puts whitespace, it may not be: [expr 2.0/3] is the same in Max/Pd [expr 2.0 /3] is not
GridFlow's grids default to int32 (This is because this is the int type in jMax. It's also the int type in Max and others except Pd)
- [#expr if $f1 < 3 then $f1 goes to the left
outlet else $f1 goes to the right outlet] ?
I don't know how this would work. In [expr], the number of outlets depends on the number of semicolon-separated expressions, and each triggering of [expr] causes them to be evaluated right-to-left. There's no syntax for not outputting on an outlet. What do you suggest ?
It's tricky. You could add a function that takes no arguments which means, "Don't output." But then I think it would be more useful to have a flexible if, then, else syntax where you can specify the outlet explicitly. Maybe that means this is a separate object than expr.
I read the Max 5 documentation and they have if and else functions where you specify the outlet with out1, out2, etc.
http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/if.html
- [#expr $0-array[$f1] ] ?
I suppose so, but we're far from that.
At this point, [#expr 1000-100-10-1] = 909, and I'm trying to make it so that it's 889. It's because (1000-(100-(10-(1)))) = 909 and ((((1000)-100)-10)-1) = 889.
The only supported method is bang and even $f1 doesn't even exist yet.
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