On Sep 1, 2009, at 10:48 AM, dmotd wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Someone should try to write a segmented patch cord plugin, that
would be a great test of the plugin idea for the new GUI. I'd be happy to
help someone thru the code, and make any reasonable changes. I suspect
it'll be hard to work around the fact that the .pd file format doesn't
include a place to store the segmented patch cord data points, but I think it could easily be handled in a separate, parallel file. It could be
like the .pd is the HTML and this other file is the CSS.i have wondered on few occasions if segmented data could be stored after the 'connect' message, is there something hardcoded that only accept a connect selector with a list with 4 floats? would adding more floats break the file format?
You could try it for yourself pretty easily. Here's an easy way to
find here the "#X connect" message is implemented:
hans@palatschinken:src > grep '"connect"' *.c
g_editor.c: gensym("#X"), gensym("connect"),
g_editor.c: "connect");
g_editor.c: gensym("#X"), gensym("connect"),
g_editor.c: binbuf_addv(b, "ssiiii;", gensym("#X"),
gensym("connect"),
g_editor.c: gensym("connect"), A_FLOAT, A_FLOAT, A_FLOAT,
A_FLOAT, A_NULL);
g_readwrite.c: binbuf_addv(b, "ssiiii;", gensym("#X"),
gensym("connect"),
m_binbuf.c: else if (!strcmp(second, "connect")||
m_binbuf.c: gensym("#X"), gensym("connect"),
m_binbuf.c: else if (!strcmp(second, "connect"))
m_binbuf.c: gensym("#P"), gensym("connect"),
u_pdsend.c: sockerror("connect");
u_pdsend.c: sockerror("connect");
x_net.c: gensym("connect"), A_SYMBOL, A_FLOAT, 0);
Basically, these two lines are saying that the "connect" message is
expected to be in 'ssiiii' format. s = symbol, i = integer. So
basically, two symbols (#X connect) and four integers (0 1 0 0)
g_editor.c: binbuf_addv(b, "ssiiii;", gensym("#X"),
gensym("connect"),
g_readwrite.c: binbuf_addv(b, "ssiiii;", gensym("#X"),
gensym("connect"),
First try throwing extra ints in the #X connect messages in a .pd
file, and see if that works. Then try getting those ints in Pd.
.hc
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