[chuck-users] getting started questions

[Steve Morris]

Thank you Spencer. That's very helpful. I haven't looked at Bitcrusher yet
but besides being chuck full ;-) of useful toys Lick is also a goldmine of
interesting programming examples. I really learn best by reading code. Lick
should keep me busy for a while.

-steve
aka zencuke




On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Spencer Salazar <
spencer at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> 1. The scope of variables is more or less standard Java/C-like --
> variables can be used anywhere in the scope in which they are declared or
> scopes enclosed within, and the underlying values can be passed around to
> other scopes. File-scope variables can be accessed in pretty much any shred
> created in that file. Sharing variables across files tends to be more
> complicated -- the basic paradigm is to make a public class and access
> static variables or methods within that.
>
> 2. Michael Heuer's LicK is one example of this:
> https://github.com/heuermh/lick
>
> 3. Depending on what your C++ code is doing, you could use a chugin (ChucK
> plugin). These are generally most appropriate for unit generators and
> relatively simple generic library functionality. One simple example,
> Bitcrusher:
> https://github.com/ccrma/chugins/tree/master/Bitcrusher
>
> 4. The installer should also have installed the command line executable --
> you can check this by opening up a window in Terminal and entering a chuck
> command:
> $ chuck --version
>
> chuck version: 1.3.2.0 (chimera)
>    mac os x : intel : 64-bit
>    http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
>     http://chuck.stanford.edu/
>
> $ chuck --help
> ...
> $ chuck path/to/file.ck
> etc.
>
> spencer
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Steve Morris <steve at judgement.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm new to ChucK but am very excited. I have grand plans. I will likely
>> have lots of questions (some unfortunately stupid, apologies in advance)
>> although I have been pouring through manuals, examples, the wiki, git
>> source code and forum archives. Hopefully my questions won't be too
>> annoying. I'm always happy to receive answers in the form of pointers to
>> documentation I should be reading before wasting the groups time. Here's my
>> first pass.
>>
>> 1) I can't find any thing that documents the scope of variables and
>> objects. Can I create variables that can be accessed in other files, other
>> threads.
>>
>> 2) My first project will be fairly large hopefully split between many
>> files. Where can I look to see how ChucK code should be broken down and
>> organized. What is a good paradigm for a shared library.
>>
>> 3) Speaking of libraries I would like to bring a lot of existing C++ code
>> into my project. Does dynamic linking actually work. I see vague (old)
>> references to it being made to work again as if it was broken and other
>> references to it just needing documentation which will come "soon." Lacking
>> documentation is there an example library that does it. I can get a long
>> ways with a working example. Working code may be confusing and slow to
>> understand but it is its own most accurate documentation. I've looked at
>> chuck_dll and I think I need to see the interface from the other side to
>> really understand. I'm happy to be a reviewer for "preliminary" draft
>> documentation.
>>
>> 4) The Mac install seems to have installed a single bundled app. How do I
>> use the command line interface?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -steve (aka zencuke)
>>
>>
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