Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
Hallo, I spent some time working on the Pdpedia.
I chose switch~ for the start of a reference article since it's very simple; I think if we can get it looking nice it will be a good step towards describing more complex objects, like the IEMGUIs or [pool].
So, most of my work should be pretty self-explanatory. One question: what is the intent of the "Messages" section? Is this "messages understood by the first inlet"? If so, I guess I should move the "Inlet 0" explanations there and put something like "Inlet 0: 1/0 for DSP On/Off + <Messages>" with a link to that section?
well, here starts the great definition chaos on what is message and what is data.
for simplicity i guess that you have 2 choices:
- everything that goes to inlet-0 is a 'message'; in this case i would
suggest to remove the inlet-0 section (rather than the messages section)
- everything that is not one of the predefined types "float", "symbol",
"list" is a 'message'; in this case we would need both a messages- and an inlet0- section.
I also made some templates called {{msg}} and {{obj}}. You can see them in action at http://wiki.puredata.info/en/switch%7E. The obj
_very_ nice
fmdr sIOhannes