Re: [PD] looking for an example port of a max/msp external to flext

If you want to move an external from MaxMSP to MaxMSP/Pd, I
developed another approach which is far less elegant than Thomas
Grill's flext, but may be easier when you are starting with an
existing MaxMSP code base. The basic idea is to use #ifdefs at the
few places where MaxMSP and Pd code diverge, and a single header to
wrap the different headers used for the two programs. The result is
a single code file that will compile into either Pd or MaxMSP. You
can see examples of this here:

which by the way corresponds to flext version 0.1. (might still be
found in the archives!) This is the best approach for external objects that only make use of
basic functionality of the underlying system.

greetings, Thomas

-- Thomas Grill http://grrrr.org