Re: [Pythonsound-devel] The problem of duration of F

[Paul W. <sli...@ya...>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:52:13PM +0200, um...@ti... wrote:

> Think of using PseudoEvents or MetaEvents. "PseudoEvent" or
> "MetaEvents" are buzzwords. In fact their are just parametrized
> factories of events or aggregates. They are built with a
> configuration, can be manipulated in the standard ways Events, when
> they are actually converted they generate the real events and return
> them.  They will be probably subclasses Event but have additional
> properties like "brightness" or
> "being-more-dense-at-the-start-less-dense-at-the-end" or "position"
> and so on and so forth.

I like this concept very much.
Are PseudoEvent and MetaEvent the same thing?
 
> for each object contained and recursively:
>   ask: "Do you have this property/method?"
>   if yes, call/change
> 
> This is not implemented but I have to do this in order get it working.

OK, I see what you're aiming at. That's even better than polymorphism!

I was worried that the end user, trying to write an omde script, would
have to do lots of by-hand "try... except" or other conditional
tests. It looks like you're considering a framework whereby Aggregates
take care of that for you. I like it.


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