Going Deeper: Altering Audulus patches in TextEdit

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RobertSyrett

I would like to request anyone who knows how to automate tons of connections to share :)

biminiroad

@jjthrash did that in one or two of his recent patches? JJ - was that just by copy/paste?

jjthrash

It was all by code. I'll see if I can comment the heck out of my code, but the key piece is here: https://github.com/jjthrash/conway-audulus/blob/37192fca9b17ab12bc8f12104d8a6bbcccfef9d1/audulus.rb#L86

It makes a wire between the numbered output of one node to the numbered input of another node.

For instance, here I'm connecting one conway node to all its neighbors: https://github.com/jjthrash/conway-audulus/blob/37192fca9b17ab12bc8f12104d8a6bbcccfef9d1/build_conway.rb#L48

More simply, here I'm wiring the output of the interlace node (that interlaces the current contents of the conway grid) to the output node of the subpatch: https://github.com/jjthrash/conway-audulus/blob/37192fca9b17ab12bc8f12104d8a6bbcccfef9d1/build_conway.rb#L118

jjthrash

One tip I'll share: you might find it easier to get around if you "pretty print" the patch before editing.

- Open the patch in TextEdit
- Copy the whole thing to the clipboard
- Paste it into this website: http://jsonprettyprint.com/
- Copy the output into TextEdit
- Edit away

Audulus doesn't care how pretty it is, but it sure is easier for humans to get around that way.

biminiroad

Thanks for the help @jjthrash!

stschoen

@jjthrash, prettyprint certainly makes it easier to read!

stschoen

Another useful tool for those on a Mac is JSON Editor by Vlad Badea available in the app store. Displays and edits JSON in a tree format.

Experiment1

Does notepad++ not work on Mac?
What about Sublime? It's somewhat like WinRar, who kindly ask you to pay ("I'll pay next time, WinRar, I promise!".

I usually fix my broken patches with notepad++, when Audulus sometimes doesn't save all.

Another topic: What about a DMS? It would vastly improve the collaboration and reuse on patches.

There a some GPL like bitfarm-Archiv:
https://www.bitfarm-archiv.de/dokumentenmanagement/kosten-lizenzierung.html

Google translated to english:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=https://www.bitfarm-archiv.de/dokumentenmanagement/kosten-lizenzierung.html&edit-text=

jjthrash

@Experiment1 Notepad++ is Windows-only, I believe.

Sublime would work.. does it have a special JSON mode? Any decent text editor will work to edit an Audulus patch. Atom is a free editor kind of like Sublime.

As for a document management system, I personally use git for version control on my Audulus patches. Works great, though not easily on iOS.

biminiroad

@Experiment1 Yeah, TextEdit works fine for editing Audulus patches - that's what I used. You can use the JSON Pretty thing mentioned above, paste that into a the Audulus file as opened into TextEdit, and proceed fro mthere.

Experiment1

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