On Mar 22, 2006, at 4:03 AM, cdr wrote:
who is in charge about coordinating tcl/tk and pd?
there is no-one in charge
guess that an option to query objects for their parameters would
really speed up and enhance interface design in pd. something like ";
myhslider get_width"i think this reflective nature for objects is in the design spec
for DesireData (look for the PS published for Piksel '05, or the
earlier one for PD-C 1.0). im pretty sure it hasnt reached the
point of stability that it is being considered to be rolled into
the the mainline version of PD maintained by the original author.
one thing that could help change that is for you to test it out..
it is in the devel_0_39 branch of CVSa nice interactive property inspector can be done up in 10 lines of
Tk..in desireData, the object properties are stored in a hash with keys
like $_(objectID:property), in ixpd, theyre stored in a TCL dictionaryif what you want is the ability to query any object (including the
core, non-GUI ones) for their current state, and set any properties
via an inspector, this doesnt quite exist (although with the class
inspector from impd you could probably get close to at least
knowing what stuff is changeable, without digging thru the help
patches or object source)pd is still a work in progress...
It'd be nice to see some kind of binary release of DesireData so we
can play without compiling and all that. Do any exist?
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