HI Fred Jan,
that sounds good. But I think you sent me the same file as before? They are exactly alike.
I don't want to push it, but I noticed 2 details that I could mention. But ignore them if you have better things to do:
- since I'm recording the console output of the tcl patch, only now I
noticed that it adds a first line with "lines to patch: 9 36 37 38 39..." etc. Anyway it is ignored by Pd when loading the file, I only noticed it by chance when I opened the pd file in a text editor
- I didn't look at the structure of the pd files clearly enough, the lines
starting with "#X restore" and "#X msg" could also be processed, for a more coherent result.
But anyway, ignore all these if you have more interesting things to do. I can do any testing anytime for anything - since I can't program on anything else than Pd, at least it's my way of paying back the price of free software.
Afaik, there isn't any rasterizer or grid alignment option - you might ask
Jonathan Wilkes, since he's putting lots of new things into Pd2lork. Or
maybe the community might be interested in supporting your code to improve
patching quality - at least it could have an interesting result for you.
Best,
Joao
Hi João,
Changed the behaviour and also added some code that prevents #A and #N lines from being changed. Make sure you proper test it, because I didn't. Consider this the price of free software :-).
@Dan: It is Tcl, but I should look into the gui plugin interface to make it work. And another way of selecting objects as there aren't any line numbers within Pd. It could be converted to some kind of rasterizer or align-to-grid option, but that may already exist...
Greetings & success,
Fred Jan
Hi Fred,
I did some testing today when I had some more time. It works great, and if I use it in a command like xxxx > new.pd, I get the new patch out of
it.If I may, I would ask for a small improvement: it would be great if the processing would be done in the opposite way; that is, all lines with #X obj are processed, *except* the ones given as arguments. I can also work with the version you sent me, but for the exercises I'm thinking about, only an exception of lines will be kept in the original way.
I tried to do it myself, but quickly I came to the conclusion that my lack of experience with scripting languages doesn't really help me.
Thanks a lot,
Joao
Hi João,
It appeared to be a simple program in Tcl, which you should have, as it comes with Pd. The usage is: tclsh changeCoords.tcl patchName xcoord ycoord line1 ?line2? ... lineN arguments may be a number or a range, like 12-15.
The patch is currently dumped to the console. Only minimal checking is done.
If you remove the #'s for the puts "..." lines, you can see some
interim results (which will ruin the patch format).Greetings,
Fred Jan