Mike McGonagle wrote:
- Lua access to PD variables
Now on the TODO list.
- Lua access to PD tables
Now on the TODO list, after being in my virtual TODO list for ages.
Another idea that I had was, instead, have my Lua script create a bunch of 'receive' objects, and just have the PD interface send the data to that receiver, rather than use a variable.
Yes, that works - I use Lua quite a bit for collecting values from my (many) GUI objects and sending them to one outlet.
See for example:
https://devel.goto10.org/svn/maximus/2008/d012345/vast-array-of-numbers-guts...
For going the other way (sending values to one of many GUI objects), I generally use Pd [makefilename] [list prepend] "; $1 $2" and so on, although it would be equally possible to do it in Lua.
Also, is there any sort of "coding standard" that has been established in pdlua? When I started to learn Lua, I wasn't using PD, and since I started with PD, I noticed that the Object system used by pdlua was different from what I had done.
The object system in pdlua isn't particularly well-thought out or elegant, I'd be interested in what you had developed and how it differs
- maybe I could learn something from it.