Hello all,
This is the first release (still beta) of a Lua program called "Idiomatic". The purpose of the program is to allow the instantiation of various Pd objects from a template. The intention is to allow the user to create any Pd code, saving it to a file, and then loading it back in as a new collection of object (rather than using an abstraction). The point of it is to speed up the creation of new patches by automating the creation and wiring of these various template.
It should be able to take any Pd patch, reading it, and then producing a new set of Pd objects based on that idiom.
Currently, there are a small set of idioms from which to choose, but the creation of more is easy.
It requires [lua], and from zexy, [list2symbol] and [symbol2list]
The steps to using it are:
- Create your 'idiom' template file and save it.
- Load up the help file.
- Select the 'idiom' you wish to generate (some example exist in the
'basic' folder.) 4. Choose the subpatch window in which to produce the 'idiom' (do note, that currently it will delete the contents of that subpatch, so do becareful). 5. Copy and Paste the new objects where you need them, and modify to suit that specific need
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Mike
Hallo, Mike McGonagle hat gesagt: // Mike McGonagle wrote:
This is the first release (still beta) of a Lua program called "Idiomatic". The purpose of the program is to allow the instantiation of various Pd objects from a template. The intention is to allow the user to create any Pd code, saving it to a file, and then loading it back in as a new collection of object (rather than using an abstraction). The point of it is to speed up the creation of new patches by automating the creation and wiring of these various template.
That's pretty nice! I had to make the symbols smaller to be able to see them in the help patch.
It requires [lua], and from zexy, [list2symbol] and [symbol2list]
You could also make list2symbol and symbol2list clones in Lua to get rid of the zexy-dependency.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht Do You RjDj.me? _ ______footils.org__
Thank you, Frank. And a good idea about the replacements for the zexy stuff. That way it could be useful with Vanilla Pd, just need the Lua stuff.
Do you have any idea for things that might be encapsulated "Idioms"? It would be nice to start some sort of library, and the things that I put in there so far, are really just simple basic ideas. While I don't think this sort of thing would be Universally usable, it would eliminate some of the more mundane tasks when creating counters and looping constructs.
I was thinking that rather than calling the help file a "help patch", that it should really just be called a tool, as it pretty much encapsulates everything you need to actually use this. I don't really forsee anyone creating an instance of the [Idiomatic] object in a regular patch.
Mike
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
Hallo, Mike McGonagle hat gesagt: // Mike McGonagle wrote:
This is the first release (still beta) of a Lua program called "Idiomatic". The purpose of the program is to allow the instantiation of various Pd objects from a template. The intention is to allow the user to create any Pd code, saving it to a file, and then loading it back in as a new collection of object (rather than using an abstraction). The point of it is to speed up the creation of new patches by automating the creation and wiring of these various template.
That's pretty nice! I had to make the symbols smaller to be able to see them in the help patch.
It requires [lua], and from zexy, [list2symbol] and [symbol2list]
You could also make list2symbol and symbol2list clones in Lua to get rid of the zexy-dependency.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht Do You RjDj.me? _ ______footils.org__
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Sounds very interesting. I think this is along these lines, I have
been thinking of drag-n-drop behaviors for Pd's GUI. I was thinking
it would be awesome to have a file association mechanism for drag-n-
drop. Basically, you would associate a patch to a file type. Then
when you drop a file on a canvas, the contents of that patch would be
stuck on that canvas.
For example, drop a .wav and a readsf~, and open message and a toggle
would be placed there.
.hc
On Nov 23, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Mike McGonagle wrote:
Thank you, Frank. And a good idea about the replacements for the zexy stuff. That way it could be useful with Vanilla Pd, just need the Lua stuff.
Do you have any idea for things that might be encapsulated "Idioms"? It would be nice to start some sort of library, and the things that I put in there so far, are really just simple basic ideas. While I don't think this sort of thing would be Universally usable, it would eliminate some of the more mundane tasks when creating counters and looping constructs.
I was thinking that rather than calling the help file a "help patch", that it should really just be called a tool, as it pretty much encapsulates everything you need to actually use this. I don't really forsee anyone creating an instance of the [Idiomatic] object in a regular patch.
Mike
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org
wrote:Hallo, Mike McGonagle hat gesagt: // Mike McGonagle wrote:
This is the first release (still beta) of a Lua program called "Idiomatic". The purpose of the program is to allow the
instantiation of various Pd objects from a template. The intention is to allow the user to create any Pd code, saving it to a file, and then loading it back in as a new collection of object (rather than using an abstraction). The point of it is to speed up the creation of new patches by automating the creation and wiring of these various template.That's pretty nice! I had to make the symbols smaller to be able to see them in the help patch.
It requires [lua], and from zexy, [list2symbol] and [symbol2list]
You could also make list2symbol and symbol2list clones in Lua to get rid of the zexy-dependency.
Ciao
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