It is kind of amazing that such a powerful text tool comes at this price. When I wrote my master thesis I struggled with Open Office because I wanted to find out for real how it compares to Microsoft Office. Now I have been a regular user of TextMate and Latex, writing various stuff (text (Latex), PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) almost every day for the last 30 days. To put it simple: I am never going back unless I really, really have to. TextMate is hereby recommended.
March, 2008
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Mar 08
Javascript but no JSUI
I have always been a fan of the LCD-object in Max/MSP/Jitter but it is somewhat tedious to control stuff on it because of all those drawing commands….. However I am tired of not being able to use those beloved semantics in Multislider so I’ve made me a javascript interface to make LCD behave like a multislider. I think it came out as a beauty.
cheers..
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Mar 08
more javascript in max….
I like to write a javascript every now and then to avoid using a million objects in my Max/MSP/Jitter patches, and today was such a nice day for a little javascript…The script came out nice and tidy, but when I wrote another function to send the semantics to an ubumenu for easy navigation in the UI things became somewhat tedious… I’ll keep the receipt around here for anyone interested as there was very little concrete information about this in the documentation (Max/MSP) and even less on the user forums….
Anyway, this is reliable (remove the brackets):
[a=patcher.newobject("user", "ubumenu", 101, 99, 100, 196617, 0,1,1,0);]
The problem was nothing but the font and font size…. With the newdefault method they are messed up, but with newobject everything works out fine. I guess I was confused because the newdefault method creates the object, and allows filling it with content, and anything but the font related stuff…..
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Mar 08
More make up…..
Electro-Harmonix has given their web site an overhaul and since they promise more content, and since they are synonymous with the early days of guitar pedal innovation I hope they have something new and really exiting up their sleeves for guitar artistry.
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Mar 08
Javascript in Max/MSP/Jitter
I am working on a sampler-like tool for Goldwasser perfomances, and as I ad functions to it I tend to use Javascript for the ease of text-based programming rather than the usual Max/MSP/Jitter graphical object style…. Strange, but this has been a tendency for some months now, and I guess the ease of modularity through text-based programming is what I find so attracting.
Just because I want to picturize this blog a bit: Here is a little image of the file navigator in the Goldwasser sampler. As all Max-programs aimed at creativity it is a work in a never ending progress…..
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Mar 08
Bogner is halfway through the make up fair
Seems like Bogner is putting out a new line of amps while moving the other ones into the custom shop thing…. My beloved Ecstasy 101B will stay right beside me, but the guitar geek part of me is very happy that they are making new stuff! If you play guitar and don´t know a Bogner I urge you to get close to one. They smell good as well.
The make up thing in the headline is obviously aimed at their web site…….
cheers
Arve
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Mar 08
Stuck in a mac superdrive
Got me a stucked dvd today, and one of the tricks that I found on the Internet was holding down the mousebutton while rebooting….. Tedious. But it worked.
I had me another go at the problematic disk. And it got stuck again. This time I tried to mouseclick and eject (button) at the same time, and lo and behold, the disk came out. Maybe this is a familiar trick not appearing in my Google, so I keep it here at my blog so that I will not forget it. Restarting is always tedious so I hope this mouseclick-eject routine was not another one timer……