.name pddp - PureData documentation project

.question Has anybody made any moves in this direction?

Yes, Miller of course !!! ;-)

I just whant to say that the way the actual help is working is very good cause it's interactive.

I've done a documentation about pd internal messages (see "readme" below if you are interested). You can donwload (http://dh7.free.fr/) it and integrate it in anything you whant.

by the way here a link found in my database about documentation : http://www.parasitaere-kapazitaeten.net/Pd/introduction.htm

cheers Damien

-----------------------------------ReadMe------------------------------ Here some documentation about internal pd messages. (pd-msg_05)

1. Thoses msg are sent directly to pd (pd selector) or to a loaded patch

(pd-patch.pd selector). all thoses msg has to be finnished by a ";" you can test them using : in the file menu : message pdsend the tclsend2pd in the 4.msg_from_tcl folder.

Thoses message allows you (examples): To control pd without the gui : Take benefit of the no-gui option open a patch via socket... (tcl, python, sh, c++,...) modify or create new patch Create patch that will create some other Deals with massive polyphonie (100 osc~ or more...) load patchs from an other construct generative patch Create new gui etc...

2. Here an list of those msg (* are documented somewhere in this doc):

messages to pd: init [gimme] filename [symbol] [symbol] * open [symbol] [symbol] * quit foo [gimme] * dsp [gimme] meters [float] key [gimme] * audiostatus finderror ping

messages to canvas: * obj [gimme] * msg [gimme] * floatatom [gimme] * symbolatom [gimme] * text [gimme] * graph [gimme] * array * scalar [gimme] bng [gimme] toggle [gimme] vslider [gimme] hslider [gimme] radio [gimme] vumeter [gimme] mycnv [gimme] * connect [float] [float] [float] [float] * restore [gimme] write [symbol] [defsymbol] read [symbol] [defsymbol] mergefile [symbol] [defsymbol] sort * click [float] [float] [float] [float] * mouseup [float] [float] [float] * key [gimme] * motion [float] [float] [float] * print [symbol] * menusave * menusaveas * menuclose [deffloat] * saveto [symbol] [symbol] * cut * copy * paste * duplicate * selectall * tidy * texteditor * editmode [deffloat] protectmode [deffloat] * print [symbol] * pop [deffloat] * loadbang * relocate [symbol] [symbol] * menufont * font [float] [float] [float] * find [gimme] * findagain * findparent * vis [float] properties [float] [float] help [float] [float] arraydialog [symbol] [float] [float] [float] map [float] clear intatom [gimme] atom [gimme]

3. Here the map of the documentation :

1.msg_and_patch describe msg that can be sent to patch. contains pd files

2.msg_and_pd describe msg that can be sent to pd. contains pd files

3.pdscript it's sh scrip using pdsend to create patch into pd. pdscript has been done by Guenter Geiger contains it's own readme + files.

4.msg_from_tcl/tk decribe how to use tcl/tk to create, open patch, etc...

5.Examples Contain an example of how a "obj x y myOsc~" message can be use to deal with massive polyphonie

4. Releases :

release 0.5 : pd-msg_05.tar.gz add some more msg. Thanks to Krzysztof Czaja all msg are listed for pd0.34

release 0.4 : pd-msg_04.tar.gz add many message : the events messages the menu messages the cut&paste msg, etc... complete the polyphonie example

release 0.3 : pd-msg Rearenge patch & examples in diferents directory. add polyphonie examples add tcl scripts...

release 0.2 : self-generation add messages to open and close patch.

release 0.1 : self-construction first release

5. To do list :

some msg are not well explain or not explain at all.

6. Reference :

Look @ the end of code of g_canvas.c in the source directory.

Damien HENRY