Smashing day
== Part 1 == I'm trying to do some user-interaction and would like to use variables for handling filepaths. I understand this may not be a problem with Linux/Mac as we can use ~/ for the user's home directory. What would be the Windows equivalent of that? I'd also like to know how to handle Windows paths in general with Pd as the backslash is not recognised.
== Part 2 == Look at the screenshots at http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/tutorial_3_audio_input_and_reco...
Is that a Mac-specific look or could we patch the latest version to look like that? The patches available from crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/ are for an older version.
Thanks for reading (:
Ray Rashif wrote:
Smashing day
== Part 1 == I'm trying to do some user-interaction and would like to use variables for handling filepaths. I understand this may not be a problem with Linux/Mac as we can use ~/ for the user's home directory. What would be the Windows equivalent of that? I'd also like to know how to handle Windows paths in general with Pd as the backslash is not recognised.
afaik, Pd-extended has support for this (at least you should be able to use "~" and "$HOME" (or was it %HOME%?) to access your home-directory.
== Part 2 == Look at the screenshots at http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/tutorial_3_audio_input_and_reco...
Is that a Mac-specific look or could we patch the latest version to look like that?
this is how Pd-extended looks like on all platforms.
fgmasdr IOhannes
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
== Part 2 == Look at the screenshots at http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/tutorial_3_audio_input_and_reco... Is that a Mac-specific look or could we patch the latest version to look like that?
this is how Pd-extended looks like on all platforms.
No, it's actually OSX-specific to the extent that all lines are blurred out to dim greys two pixels wide instead of being sharp dark lines one pixel wide. I thought that this problem had been fixed a while ago on OSX ? Does the OSX version look like the others now?
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
this is how Pd-extended looks like on all platforms.
No, it's actually OSX-specific to the extent that all lines are blurred out to dim greys two pixels wide instead of being sharp dark lines one pixel wide. I thought that this problem had been fixed a while ago on OSX ? Does the OSX version look like the others now?
I mean specifically the horizontal and vertical lines. OSX's rendering of diagonal lines is of course better. For fonts it depends... my experience on OSX was that Courier was too blurry as well. Ideally, fonts would be just a little bit smoothed... only on their diagonal lines. However, we often don't have that level of control.
_ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal, Québec
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
== Part 2 == Look at the screenshots at http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/tutorial_3_audio_input_and_reco...
Is that a Mac-specific look or could we patch the latest version to look like that?
this is how Pd-extended looks like on all platforms.
No, it's actually OSX-specific to the extent that all lines are blurred
i realized after ray's second email that he was talking about the antialiasing thing rather than the general Pd-extended look.
fgadmsrt IOhannes
On Jan 28, 2009, at 5:19 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Ray Rashif wrote:
Smashing day == Part 1 == I'm trying to do some user-interaction and would like to use
variables for handling filepaths. I understand this may not be a problem with
Linux/Mac as we can use ~/ for the user's home directory. What would be the
Windows equivalent of that? I'd also like to know how to handle Windows
paths in general with Pd as the backslash is not recognised.afaik, Pd-extended has support for this (at least you should be able
to use "~" and "$HOME" (or was it %HOME%?) to access your home- directory.
~ should work on Windows too, or %UserProfile%
== Part 2 == Look at the screenshots at http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/tutorial_3_audio_input_and_reco... Is that a Mac-specific look or could we patch the latest version to
look like that?this is how Pd-extended looks like on all platforms.
Not quite. That is Pd-extended using an old version of Tcl/Tk so that
the anti-aliasing is super fuzzy. If you are using Pd-extended with
the embedded version of Tcl/Tk, or you turn off the anti-aliasing, it
is not fuzzy like that.
.hc
"[T]he greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own
government." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
~/ will give you the home dir of the current user on XP with Pd-vanilla. And you can substitute backslash with slash
mhv/SteffenLP
Ray Rashif skrev:
Smashing day
== Part 1 == I'm trying to do some user-interaction and would like to use variables for handling filepaths. I understand this may not be a problem with Linux/Mac as we can use ~/ for the user's home directory. What would be the Windows equivalent of that? I'd also like to know how to handle Windows paths in general with Pd as the backslash is not recognised.
== Part 2 == Look at the screenshots at http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/tutorial_3_audio_input_and_reco...
Is that a Mac-specific look or could we patch the latest version to look like that? The patches available from crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/ http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/ are for an older version.
Thanks for reading (:
Thanks.
Pretty strange, though..neither of those work (writing to Desktop). Making files at the workdir will suffice for now.
Anyway, regarding the appearance, I was told by Hans the same on IRC a day ago or so - that it was the latest pd-extended. However, my copy of the Windows version Pd-0.40.3-extended.exe looks like:
[ see attached ]
or direct link:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/9434/screencap00tm7.png
Primarily, my objects and cords are not that smooth (thinner borders, more aliased) or multi-coloured. Sorry to be making a fuss out of this; I would just like to ensure that I'm not missing out on anything.
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