Hi Scott,
there is a PDF document that explains nearly every line. It's written by Theodor Stojanov. It should be available for download at http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~theo/
To get simple examples or templates I would recomment to have a look at the examples in Pd's doc/6.externs directory.
Olaf
"J. Scott Hildebrand" schrieb:
i'm going over the HOWTO on writing externals, and to tell you the
truth it's very difficult. my C/C++ skills are intermediate, and i'm having a hell of a time figuring this stuff out. does anybody have any simpler examples/templates? or possibly more info on what's happening behind the scenes and with each line of code? thanks,
scott
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