From: Peter Brinkmann <peter.brinkmann@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:39:43 -0400
To: Joe White <white.joe4@gmail.com>
Cc: pd-list <pd-list@iem.at>, Chris McCormick <chris@mccormick.cx>
Subject: Re: [PD] RJDJ,sceneplayer & Xoom


Hi Joe,

* The app faithfully implements all features of the iPhone app that were publicly documented last summer, including rj_image, rj_text, sensor input, etc.  There have been a few additions since (scaling and rotating text, I think); those will be easy enough to add when I see the new specs, and I'm not aware of any scenes that require them.  In short, a properly written RjDj scene should look and behave the same for both versions.

How do you want the spec Peter? As a Pd patch showing how to use it? I'm going to update the help patch for [rj_image] in the RjLib, would that be useful?

Ideally, I'd like to have a list of all externals and their messages, including an explanation of the meaning of parameters (e.g., units, origin and orientation for coordinates and angles, etc.), as well as test scenes/help patches and maybe videos of how it looks and behaves on an iOS device.  Realistically, updated help patches would probably be enough to get me started.

Yeah, a few months ago we tried to parse the RjLib so that we could create a documentation page on the site. We ended up making .cfg files for each object as we struggled to parse the netlist with python. It kinda got put on ice as development has gone a bit crazy. These files are still available if you checkout the 'help_gen' branch from the RjLib git repo. 

Otherwise this page - http://blog.rjdj.me/pages/pd-utilities - has most of the information needed to get started with making scenes, including some templates. If there is anything you think needs improving I'd love to know :)  
 
This is really cool Peter. Thanks for you all your work! I don't know about Martin, but I don't think many of us in the company are that update with the Android development - being that we all have iPhones :)

You're welcome!
Cheers,
     Peter

Cheers,
Joe