25 May
2013
25 May
'13
9:01 a.m.
From: Alexandre Torres Porres porres@gmail.com To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com; pd-list pd-list@iem.at Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [PD] first exercise with data structures
They are _extremely_ limited with the current implementation.
what do you mean by that?
- big resource hog-- you'll get dropouts with drawing instructions
or animations of any complexity
- you must choose between using $0 in struct name (for locality) or
having flexible approach where you can save/retrieve state. (Unlike a "Put" menu array where you can get both)
- no option to _not_ save ds state with the patch (Unlike a "Put" menu
array)
- buffer overflow when reading state from file http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1469910&gro...
- cannot easily set hotspot for mouse manipulation
- hotspot bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2457992&gro...
- flickering animation with arrays and/or lots of scalars on screen
- crashes with nested arrays when changing struct args
- many other problems
Usable for making a static score/diagram that will not be encapsulated inside an abstraction, and for array manipulations that don't require any drawing instructions. So _extremely_ limited.
-Jonathan