[chuck-users] how to mickey-mouse a 'switch' statement into chuck?

[Forrest Curo]

I'm gathering that I can just put 'machine.add(<any of these classes in the
directory that I want to use>)' and
that should work(?)

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Forrest Curo <treegestalt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, I did find the github zip for tap-plugins -- but the later plugins
> are struggling; and I wasn't thinking of using them... so I'll assume that
> I'm okay if I don't, for now.
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Forrest Curo <treegestalt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Something more elaborate than branching on the value of a specific
>>> variable?"
>>>
>>> To use a text keyboard to trigger real-time changes in key, mode
>>> ('major', 'minor', etc), record-&-repeat-&-vary (by scale degrees in
>>> whichever the current  key & mode are), accelerate or slow playback, change
>>> target instrument for playback-and/or-midi-keyboard, dump or keep current
>>> loop, etc:
>>> with some 36+ keys available for whatever organization of this works --
>>> and I want to be able to modify the arrangement meanwhile so I don't
>>> trap myself into a bad design...
>>>
>>> so running the text input through a maze of logic by ascii values seems
>>> too cumbersome.
>>> I know, I could search-&-replace, but finding a key value in a list
>>> and changing the associated function
>>> just seems a whole lot less ugly!
>>> -------------------------
>>>
>>> Um, I'm now trying to install 'tap-plugins' as a prerequisite for
>>> installing 'lick' -- and the instructions for that are telling me, ~'just
>>> cd into folder and run 'make' -- but make can't find anything _to_ make! Do
>>> I really need those plugins to install & use lick?
>>>
>>
>> No.  Without them chuck will complain when loading the import.ck file
>>
>> $ chuck + import.ck
>> ...
>> [TapeDelay.ck]:line(26): cannot extend incomplete type 'Swh'
>> [TapeDelay.ck]:line(26): ...(note: the parent's declaration must preceed
>> child's)
>> [RubberBand.ck]:line(26): cannot extend incomplete type 'Ladspa'
>> [RubberBand.ck]:line(26): ...(note: the parent's declaration must preceed
>> child's)
>> "LiCK imported." : (string)
>>
>> but everything else will work fine.  And installing all of those plugins
>> is a real mess, especially on OSX.  I should probably cut a docker image at
>> some point.
>>
>>    michael
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Spencer Salazar <
>>> spencer at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Doing functional stuff in ChucK can be pretty fun (and verbose), but
>>>> for specifically switch-case structures, mostly these can be implemented
>>>> e.g. as
>>>>
>>>> if(var == 0) // case 0:
>>>> { }
>>>> else if(var == 1) // case 1:
>>>> { }
>>>> else // default:
>>>> { }
>>>>
>>>> You can't do fall-throughs or nutty things like Duff's device, but
>>>> (making up a number) maybe 90% of switch-case uses I see are basically a
>>>> slightly better-looking if-else. Are you doing something more elaborate
>>>> than branching on the value of a specific variable?
>>>>
>>>> spencer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Forrest Curo <treegestalt at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It looks far prettier than a mess of logical spaghetti!
>>>>>
>>>>> But is this documented with examples for the help & understanding of
>>>>> object-challenged geezers from the days of punch-card boxes converted
>>>>> twice/day to error-message listings?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Forrest Curo <treegestalt at gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since switches have so far not been included, is there a way around
>>>>>>> this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> An array of Events?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> An array of functions, either numbered or associative? How to
>>>>>>> declare and call such an array?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ChucK doesn't have function pointers or similar, so I've resorted to
>>>>>> functors
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/heuermh/lick/blob/master/lick/fn
>>>>>>
>>>>>> E.g.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> class DoSomething extends Procedure {
>>>>>>   fun void run() { ... }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> class DoSomethingElse extends Procedure {
>>>>>>   fun void run() { ... }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DoSomething doSomething;
>>>>>> DoSomethingElse doSomethingElse;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ArrayList procedures;
>>>>>> procedures.add(doSomething);
>>>>>> procedures.add(doSomethingElse);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> while (true) {
>>>>>>   procedures.sample() $ Procedure @=> Procedure procedure;
>>>>>>   procedure.run();
>>>>>>   1::second => now;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, it ain't pretty.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    michael
>>>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Spencer Salazar
>>>> Doctoral Candidate
>>>> Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
>>>> Stanford University
>>>>
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