[PD] GridFlow 0.7.6

Here is a new release of GridFlow, a multi-dimensional dataflow processing library for PureData, Ruby and jMax, designed for interactive arts.

    http://artengine.ca/gridflow/
    http://artengine.ca/gridflow/download/gridflow-0.7.6.tar.gz

If you have any questions and/or want to talk, there is the #dataflow chatroom on IRC.FreeNode.Net, where Pd/jMax/MAX-like software is on-topic.

If you have any trouble installing GridFlow (or have any questions), please send me an email about it, or see me on IRC.

/* $Id: ChangeLog,v 1.86 2004/03/23 01:41:35 matju Exp $ */

version 0.7.6 (2004.03.22):

• GridFlow runs on MacOS 10.2 (only with jMax 2.5)
• [@out quartz] makes a native MacOS (Cocoa+Quartz) window (warning: very buggy)
• support for Apple QuickTime movie decoding (format/quicktimeapple.c)
• file suffix detector is now extensible
• added: Ruby interface for libUSB (base/usb.c)
• x11: now emits "keypress" and "keyrelease" messages
• [@downscale_by] now supports 4 channels (therefore [peephole] does too)
• fixed bugs in: x11, @draw_image, @import, @export, ...
• "open x11" now allows any DISPLAY spec
• now includes the pictures used in the examples (not a separate download anymore)
• [@out x11 here override_redirect] (override window manager; be careful with this)
• [pd_netsocket] does like netsend/netreceive] but two-way (warning: not complete yet)
• support for nested lists in incoming messages
• new object classes: [delcom_usb]: support for Delcom USB I/O controller [joystick_port]: support for linux joystick drivers [foreach], [rubysprintf], [listflatten] [messageprepend], [messageappend], [@transpose] [@fade], [@centroid] jMax emulation: [listmake], [listlength], [listelement], [listsublist] jMax emulation: [listprepend], [listappend], [listreverse], [oneshot] jMax emulation: [inv+], [inv*] [messageprepend], [messageappend], [@transpose]
• Pd main window: adding GridFlow menu; Ruby/Tcl evaluators (with command-history)
• added bin/jmax2pd (converts .jmax files to .pd files)
• ported all .jmax examples to .pd (using jmax2pd) (20 out of 20)
• support for variable number of inlets/outlets (only with PureData)

the previous version was released on 2002.09.28 and was numbered 0.7.5.

Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju