I could REALLY use this.

Doesn't seem like it would be to hard...then again, for me, very much so, as I I do not know GEM hardly at all.

But my thinking is:

to read all the subpatches and abstractions for a branch (either open via the usual open file method or already open). Then draw them with connecting lines as either either squares or circles with their name inside.

Difficult?
Already done? (then pls send link or share patch)
Worth pursuing?

Only love,
Scott

Sometimes am intellectually challenged attempting to visualize my own patch 😀

pd2plantumlv0.1.zip

Gotta let this go, so I can do some other things tonight so will share what i currently have...

What I did was (and its way easier I think than using Gem) was write a (bash) shell script which reads a (linux-only I'm afraid) right-clicked file, i.e. a *.pd file, which you then send-to the script and it outputs a (plant)uml diagram of the objects within the patch.

Actually it outputs 3 flowcharts: native objects, subpatches, and abstractions.

I (currently) am only able to identify "natives" as what i scraped together from the Help folder so it's really quite bare and does not include all the aliases. (If you wanna have a go at amending that it is at: (when unzipped) "/root/pd-externals/pd2plantuml/res/objectlist.txt".)

On the other hand, it could be amended relatively easily to also include all externals and filter similiarly for them.

So if you unzip the file below in your ~/pd-externals folder and then point a right-click event to: pd2plantuml.sh you should then able to output the mindmap which opens in your "defaultbrowser".

Couple of caveats: plantuml has a lot of reserved characters and the current version does not account for all but one of them, "~", so it may balk on certain file(names) and complex files do take a moment or two to generate.

Good will and love thru us all.

Gotta jet.

Feedback welcome as this was a pretty fun and relatively stressless endeavor.

Ciao.
-Scott