--- On Wed, 2/18/09, João Pais jmmmpais@googlemail.com wrote:
From: João Pais jmmmpais@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [PD] data-struct: (x:y) & move object To: jancsika@yahoo.com, "Frank Barknecht" fbar@footils.org, pd-list@iem.at Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 2:03 AM
In one of your tutorials, you asked about the
"sort" message. Have a look at 07.sequencer.pd. If you open the synthesis subpatch, you'll see that pd-data is sent a sort message before sequencing. This sorts the data so that the left-to-right order of the graphical objects on the screen reflects the order in which they will be traversed. In this case it's a way of ensuring that the sounds "match" the visuals.
did I? sorry, I didn't know. it was clear for me what sort is.
In your first tutorial, step 8, you have the question about sort: "How is it useful?" But now I see I missed your definition of its behavior earlier in the patch. Anyhow, the sequencer help patch shows a practical use for the sort message.
As far as undocumented features, I don't know, but
I just noticed there's a typo in the release notes:
"A "sendwindow" message forwards any
message to the window contining the scalar currently pointed to."
It's actually send-window (with a hyphen). [send-window vis 1( | [pointer]
where did you find that information? I was looking for that file, and couldn't find it in pd-ext or pd-van. or is it only on svn or something?
It's part of the pd documentation (in doc/1.manual) that comes with pd-vanilla (and, I would assume, pd-ext): chapter 5. Also check out section 2.9 on data structures if you haven't already.
-Jonathan