From 617d2f3d115d325767eaf82b396a432d5ebfef92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Franz Zotter Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:16:36 +0000 Subject: readme added svn path=/trunk/externals/iem/pdoctave/; revision=4612 --- Readme.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Readme.txt diff --git a/Readme.txt b/Readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62f9547 --- /dev/null +++ b/Readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +pdoctave: + +pd-octave shall be an interface to octave, mainly in order to access octaves command-line functionality and enourmous function space. + +This idea was started approximately in February 2005. + +I want to appologize for the limited flexibility of the code at the moment. +That's why the use of this external is only recommended to developers. + +This code collection consists of four pd-objects: + +1. pdoctave: an object that calls octave and holds a pipe to its std in. this pipe can be acessed through the other pd-objects. + +2. pd-command: sending commands (strings) to the octave command line +3. pd-send: creating variables on the octave workspace +4. pd-get: calling back variables from the octave workspace + +In order to communicate with octave, there are two .cc files that are compiled in octave external language (mkoctfile) +5. read_shared_mem.cc +6. write_shared_mem.cc + +The variables use a common header format with access functions and definitions in +7. pdoctave-dataframe.c/h +8. pdoctave-datatype.h + + +Franz Zotter 22.Feb 2006 +(Feb 2005) + -- cgit v1.2.1