[flext] future developments - new guidelines

[Arshia Cont]

Dear Thomas and all,

This is very exciting!

Let us know how you'd want to go on this and whether we can contribute  
in any way.


Arshia Cont




On Nov 20, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:

> Hi all,
> i'm sitting in a workshop with David Zicarelli, Joshua Klayton and  
> Emmanuel Jourdan where i learn about the new development features of  
> Max 6. As expected Max has moved away from the traditional Pd-like  
> core even farther, but on the other hand with very nice new features.
> I might at some point implement the new 64-bit DSP chain and also  
> genuine Max attributes (as present since Max 5) in order to enable  
> pattr-style automation.
>
> In order to make this possible, i have to deprecate certain aspects  
> of the flext API which might be used in existing projects. Some of  
> them are even used in flext tutorial examples (where they'll  
> disappear soon), but for my actual real-world external i haven't  
> found them to be essential.
> I might try to provide backward-compatibility fallbacks for some  
> cases, but that might not be possible throughout.
>
> New guidelines:
>
> - don't use instance-based method or attribute registering. Use  
> class-based methods or attributes instead.
> so e.g., don't use FLEXT_ADDMETHOD in your constructor, but rather  
> FLEXT_CADDMETHOD in your class setup function instead. The same goes  
> for attribute definitions.
>
> - don't rely on the DSP information to be present in the CbDsp, but  
> only in CbSignal. This applies to the signal input and output  
> vectors and to the number of samples to be processed.
> The reason for this is that Max 6 allows varying vector sizes.
>
> - do always lock sample buffers when reading from or writing to  
> them. The respective methods Lock and Unlock in flext::buffer have  
> been present for quite a while, but i think i haven't really  
> advertized the necessity of using them.
>
>
> let me know what you think about it and whether this will have  
> serious advert effects to your flext-based projects.
>
> have fun!
> gr~~~
>
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