Hey guys,

I'm trying to write my own Pd object but finding it tricky, and am looking for the C code of objects already in Pd. Does anybody know where they are kept or how I can find them? I'm not used to the development side of things so this is all very new to me. Currently I'm looking for the [textfile] source code so I can see how it handles text files.

Any help anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Hey,

Here's a tutorial for writing Pd externals - http://pdstatic.iem.at/externals-HOWTO/

If you're on OS X you can view the source by showing the package contents of the app and looking in Contents/Resources/src/. I wouldn't know how to find it on other OSs

Weird... I'm on OS X alright but I've no /src/ folder... Should I? Might try downloading the latest version.... Hmmm... Found that guide alright it's epic! I'm quite new to coding though and not sure how to read in text files into my object... Cheers for your help Jwif!!

Sorry yeah I use Pd Vanilla, assumed it would be the same.

You can download the source code for Pd Vanilla here - http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html

Checked that out and the source code seems to just be for the core functionality of Pd, not the actual objects themselves (unless I'm reading the .c files wrong?).

Oh man, are you sure you want to get into the Pd source? It's not pretty.

The textfile code is in x_qlist.c (line 235).

Hope that helps

I'm mildly terrified... Cheers for the help Jwif, gonna check that out there now.

I'm trying to write my own amplitude curve generator from existing data files for physical modelling. It's for my thesis project. Only 5 weeks to go *sweats*...

Found it. Cheers man. Now to make heads n tails of the whole thing.