This reminds me...
I was always wondering if it would be possible to have an interface-less pd. Since there is the loadbang object, it is quite plausible to have a patch that does everything it needs to do without any user interaction at all (or perhaps only interacts via midi or some other non-gui method).
There would need to be an "exit" object tho, so that pd could close itself when it was finished.
A little crzy, but it would permit the creation of 'command line' tools in pd. Possibly commandline arguments could be fed into the $1, $2.. etc positional parameters.
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Olaf Matthes wrote:
by the way : would it make sense to create a "pd-play", that lacks of the editing-possibility ? i just think that it might be more secure in several cases (to keep users from incidently damaging patches).
mfg.gtr.ztr IOhannes
A very good idea! Sometimes I would need to have pd-playback capabilities on machines without pd installed. I still write stand-alone C++ programms that could be created much more easily using pd just because of the easier use of a stand-alone-programms. A small (filesize) pd-player would be a dream for publishing pd-patches in the internet for non-pd users!
Olaf