--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at wrote:
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 4:05 PM
On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at
wrote:
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch
Authors
To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:00 AM
It is Pd, so I think we should at least make an
effort to
make things easy to parse in Pd. I tried
your parser
using data that is probably closer to what we
might use, and
it didn't work at all. If someone
can get a
Pd parser working that can handle the commas well,
then I
would be OK using commas in the meta data format.
Here's my data: tags - pure data, frequency modulation, synthesis
Hi Hans, I wouldn't expect my example
to work as a general solution. If you
want a general solution, I'd be happy to take a stab
at it, but you
haven't said what you want Pd to do with the data
example you've provided
above.
Ah, sorry, I thought you'd followed the object_db.tcl plugin discussion and the [pd META] discussion with Frank. Basically, the object_db.tcl plugin builds a multilevel menu for finding objects based on tags. I'm am sure people will think of other uses for the tags. Frank suggested using comma separated tags in his [pd REFERENCE] format, the PDDP group came to the conclusion that the meta data should be easily parsable by Pd, and I still think that's a good idea.
So the idea is to have every help patch have a [pd META] subpatch, and in it, have a comment with tags.
.hc
Oh, ok. I'll have a look at that discussion.
-Jonathan