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

[Forrest Curo]

Okay, I finally found the documentation re usage...
https://github.com/heuermh/lick/wiki

Shreds that just declare classes so that other shreds can instantiate & use
them... It makes my mind blur, but so it goes!

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Forrest Curo <treegestalt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> spencer at ccrma.stanford.edu
>>>>> +1 831.277.4654
>>>>> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~spencer/
>>>>>
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