Hello everyone,

Newbie question:
i dont use pd super often, so I'm not super familiar with it and always have trouble finding the objects i need (just spent about an hour searching for oscformat object), is there some ressource to search for specific functions like in the help browser of SuperCollider?

Thanks a lot,
SCFan

@SCFan32 For standard objects the Pd menu at the top of a window.......
Click "Help" and then "List of Objects..."
Then right-click an object for help on its use.
The names are fairly obvious, and they are grouped by function.
You can copy/paste them into your patch.

For externals it is harder. I cannot find a complete list of everything available.
Searching "Pure Data externals"...
or "Pure data libraries"..
... finds them "piecemeal".
David.

@SCFan32 said:

is there some ressource to search for specific functions like in the help browser of SuperCollider?

Also consider plugdata. The GUI is more modern (Max-inspired). Object boxes perform an autocompletion search while you're typing. In your case, you'd have typed "osc" and oscformat would have been in the list.

At one point, I tried an autocomplete tcl plugin for pd, but it didn't work for me.

hjh

@ddw_music said:

At one point, I tried an autocomplete tcl plugin for pd, but it didn't work for me.

what was wrong? I am working on that by the way

I also have a plugin to show and add objects via a right click menu. This one also comes with ELSE and also shows objects for Vanilla.

@porres the "garbage-filter" since 0,49, as it won't show abstractions w/o helpfile. And the hiccup.

@SCFan32 My recommendation for learning Pd is keeping it straight Vanilla and go the way @whale-av proposed: Learn the list of objects Vanilla vocabulary and learn thinking in Vanilla, instead of searching for objects. This would be the low-level Pd-Vanilla way.

From what I have glimpsed SC is not so very low-low level.

Searching objects of libraries can be done in Deken. Help > Find externals
or deken.puredata.info where ctrl+f full text search helps, too.

There are some libraries that make easy high-level patching possible. But the bigger they are, and the more libs you use, the more you have to search for objects.

Searching this forum: https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11732/commands-for-forum-search-engine/2
Where in many cases newer posts are more valid, because Pd-Vanilla has developed a lot and solved many issues, added more objects ect.
(keeping backward-compability).

Also IEM has list of Vanilla objects page online:
https://pd.iem.sh/objects/