pwgl-users: Saving abstractions with ins and outs?

[Javier Torres Maldonado]

Hi,

I was working in a patch with abstractions and I saw that it is not possible to save an abstraction separately -out the main patch-, with all inputs and outputs, like in Max/MSP; what do you think about it? I think that it would be useful, above all beacuse often, abstractions give yet many problems if you want to open that in a different computer that in which the patch was created. Indeed, in the majority of the cases in which you try to do that, the abstractions disappear.

Thanks for any answer,

Javier

Javier Torres Maldonado

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Web site: http://www.torresmaldonado.net/

[Kilian Sprotte-3]

Hi Javier,

I think that you can save an abstraction outside the main patch.
If you select "save abstraction" from the context menu you get on
an abstraction box.

After you do that, you can find it in PWGL-User/Abstractions/
(starting from your Home folder).

Best,
  Kilian

PS: Maybe at some point the difference between patches and
abstractions should be eliminated?
Patches could have ins and outs and you could load patches into
patches.... - What do you think?

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Javier Torres Maldonado
<javiertorres@...> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was working in a patch with abstractions and I saw that it is not possible
> to save an abstraction separately -out the main patch-, with all inputs and
> outputs, like in Max/MSP; what do you think about it? I think that it would
> be useful, above all beacuse often, abstractions give yet many problems if
> you want to open that in a different computer that in which the patch was
> created. Indeed, in the majority of the cases in which you try to do that,
> the abstractions disappear.
> Thanks for any answer,
> Javier
>
> Javier Torres Maldonado
> javiertorres@...
> Web site: http://www.torresmaldonado.net/
>
>
>
>

[James Correa]

Dear Kilian,

I like very much the idea of eliminate the difference between patches  
and abstractions.

Best,

James

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On May 15, 2008, at 6:40 AM, Kilian Sprotte wrote:

> Hi Javier,
>
> I think that you can save an abstraction outside the main patch.
> If you select "save abstraction" from the context menu you get on
> an abstraction box.
>
> After you do that, you can find it in PWGL-User/Abstractions/
> (starting from your Home folder).
>
> Best,
>  Kilian
>
> PS: Maybe at some point the difference between patches and
> abstractions should be eliminated?
> Patches could have ins and outs and you could load patches into
> patches.... - What do you think?
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Javier Torres Maldonado
> <javiertorres@...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I was working in a patch with abstractions and I saw that it is not  
>> possible
>> to save an abstraction separately -out the main patch-, with all  
>> inputs and
>> outputs, like in Max/MSP; what do you think about it? I think that  
>> it would
>> be useful, above all beacuse often, abstractions give yet many  
>> problems if
>> you want to open that in a different computer that in which the  
>> patch was
>> created. Indeed, in the majority of the cases in which you try to  
>> do that,
>> the abstractions disappear.
>> Thanks for any answer,
>> Javier
>>
>> Javier Torres Maldonado
>> javiertorres@...
>> Web site: http://www.torresmaldonado.net/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

[Jürgen Schmitt]

To be able to save abstractions seperately und thus to build a  
versatile library "on the fly" is one of the benefits of the current  
PWGL which I would miss if you decided to remove it. Please do not
Jürgen Schmitt