On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 06:13:46PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
I don't know about your paper, it's just that while rewriting Miller's code I have to deal with a bunch of lines that are reading y, x, w. I still haven't really tried datastructures at all.
I recommend you learn the ins and outs of datastructures if you are rewriting Pd;
Well, I'm sort of learning them now, though not at all the way most would learn about them. By reading and rewriting the source I get to know a bunch of functions with 11 or 14 or 19 arguments to them.
most especially if you are adding lots of GUI stuff in DesireData. It's possible that some of the GUI things you are doing with DD could be done with Pd itself to the benefit of the larger community.
Part of the problem with that is that a rewrite of the IEMGUI classes was one of the earliest things done in DesireData. I don't recall many suggesting back then that IEMGUI could be rewritten in structs. If anyone wants to attempt to do it, it would be cool.
I can't imagine someone re-writing or forking a piece of software without understanding one of it's major features.
If it's so major a feature then how come more people aren't using it? I believe that GEM is much more of a major feature of PureData.
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