Hi

I was wondering:

1. Is there a way to make a slider 'snap' increment? So ie. Go from 1 to 8 as integers but no float numbers inbetween, so the slider snaps from 1 to 2 to 3 etc (i don't mean by attaching [int] after the slider btw )

2. If I'm editing a array (say for a sequencer) is there a way to display the current node value?

thanks & all the best

Such a slider would be very nice indeed. You can fake something like this with a slider and a canvas though...

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/fakeStepSlider.pd

What a cool idea, nice one!

I noticed that lately ive been increasingly searching for new gui techniques in Pd. I know that Pd is often touted as Max/msp without all the flashy wizzbang gui elements (in many ways it is better and 'right' in my opinion). But there is no reason why it can't have those flashy bits...Then it just occurred to me - Data Structures

I found this slider patch (attached). Surely what I just mentioned could be adapted to this. And by extention, loads of other useful gui elements.

Have I been missing something or are there other useful DS patches that Pd'ers have made?

thanks

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/slider.pd

That's an amazing example. It's gonna take some time to work out what exactly is happening, but this datastructure example really seems worth the trouble. Thanx a lot for posting this.

Very nice indeed.
Like boonier, on the gui path...

Chris McCormicks s-abstractions have some really nice ideas too - esp for envgens - http://mccormick.cx/projects/s-abstractions/page/abstractions

perhaps if between us we can come up with some unique and useful ones, Monsieur Obi might make a sticky topic to pool them into......:D

in regards to the slider question... what about running a slider through a radio object? it's a similar solution to using [int] but you get the graphical representation.

good idea pd123.

Boonier, your patch gave me a boner. I would LOVE for you to post a video or textual tutorial, (anything) that explains, how you knew what to type into 'pd slider' and also how you knew what values to use as the creation arguments.

I don't mean a complete tutorial on data structures btw, (i'm still in the process of learning that via the manual, myself)

Lovely slider patch ~ thank you very much.

Yes, I too would love to have a basic tutorial for this.

As a fulltime noob, I haven't even been able to figure out how to send external input to the individual sliders, as I cannot find inlets, or outs for that matter.

The individual sliders open out to texts like the following:

data;
template slider;
float x;
float y;
float h;
float w;
float vis;
;
;
slider 84 150 84 556 1;

What's this stuff?

In fact, I can't even figure out where the tempo is governed~:o/

Keep well ~ Shankar

@ShankarBaba said:

In fact, I can't even figure out where the tempo is governed~:o/

Keep well ~ Shankar

look at the delay object on the main window

Perhaps i should chime in being im being talked about - dont want to be rude!!

That patch was actually made by Frank (Barnecht) and I found it on the pd mail list. I dabbled for a bit, but too found it a bit of a headf*k, but learnt enough to try out different things. I suggest taking regular breaks when working with data structures. The arguments thing is probably the hardest thing to understand and is perhaps not as logical as it could be

From what I remember, that patch appends the sliders on creation and can only step through linearly (ie forward). What you really want to be using is that slider template in a DS array. That way you can mover around forward, backward, randomly. Thats kind where I got to. I'm by no means an authority on this area...

Thing is about using these as gui objects is that they are the actual data (visual representations of arrays), so separation of Gui to data is kind of superflous (see Controller Model View in wiki, generally bad practice to store data in gui objects). So this must be kept in mind when using them - they are the data. So this has confused me, i dont know why

Shankar Babar, Look up data structures in browser/manual/e.t.c.e.t.c.e.t.c It will get you on the way. But I'd like to know how one visualizer co-ordinates. - for basic stuff like tracking it's piss easy. but for creating gui objects, gets a little tougher

Hey,
here is very easy way to snap slider. Also usable for gui objects such as canvases ...
ales

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/snapping_slider.pd