[CM] Re: CM: subclassing "f" for lots of parameters

[Rick Taube]

if you send me your mods to csound-print-parameters ill update the code.


At 9:43 PM -0400 8/28/02, Larry Troxler wrote:
>Larry Troxler wrote:
>> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I'm glad to see that CM now has an "f" class to output f-statements.
>> 
>> However, it seems to me that making a usefull subclass of this is not
>> quite straightforward, because typically, there are a large and unknown
>> number of parameters to an f-statement.
>> 
>> I suppose that I can make one additional parameter in the subclass that
>> will simply be a list of all the additional csound parameters.
>> 
>> But then, I would need to modify or redefine one or more functions, like
>> "csound-print-parameters".
>> 
>> Since it seems that any usefull subclass of "f" would require some such
>> solution, has anyone already done this work?
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Larry Troxler
>
>Now I've just discovered Craig's ftables-demo.cm, which apparently
>skirts around the problem by using a string for the variable number of
>additional parameters. But this seems a bit convoluted - why not fix
>csound-print-parameters to handle a list of numbers? This is what I did
>in my own project and so far it seems to work fine - isn't this a more
>straightforward solution?
>
>The downside is that I had to redefine "csound-print-parameters" in the
>CM distribution to make this work - I couldn't figure out a way to
>subclass this method without duplicating most of the code.
>
>Larry
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