[chuck-users] blind user

[Rich Caloggero]

*>I can't quite tell if you like PD / Max or not--if you do, have you
looked into Brad Garton's chuck~ object for OSX? It's here:
http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/chuck~/

Its something I should try again. The question is: will it work with a 
screen reader such as the built-in Apple screen reader? Guess I need to try 
it...
-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew C. Smith" <andrewchristophersmith at gmail.com>
To: "ChucK Users Mailing List" <chuck-users at lists.cs.princeton.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [chuck-users] blind user


>> think the easiest way to architect this would be:
>> - build a way of binding chuck classes / objects to gui
>> - define exactly what can be exposed and thus manipulated via the gui
>> (efrrably in code)
>
> I don't have much of a comp sci background, but I think that the model
> of one class (for example, SynthControl) being the gui for another
> (SynthSounds) is a standard model. The issue with chuck is just that
> the gui only exists on OSX, and even then it's just a couple of
> buttons and sliders, so there's not much of an impetus for all the
> linux users (who, let's admit, are probably the hardcore open source
> devs among us) to work on extending the gui.
>
> I can't quite tell if you like PD / Max or not--if you do, have you
> looked into Brad Garton's chuck~ object for OSX? It's here:
> http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/chuck~/
>
> I sporadically worked on making this into a dylib for use with an
> Objective-C based GUI, but I lost interest shortly after I got it
> working, because I don't know much about programming and couldn't
> figure out how to expose chuck's variables to the outside world.
>
> Anyway, on a philosophical note, I think chuck is elegant. I like the
> way that the text-based, algorithmic focus reduces the "tactile"
> nature of Max and causes me to think in structural terms. Ironically,
> Max now seems like it's capitalizing more on the post-Buchla
> sentiment, and ChucK is coming from the post-Bell Labs ideal. But
> that's another discussion.
>
> -Andrew
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