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On purpose?

This could be inserted at some point after the chapter "Create & Update", to provide a theorectical foundation for managing spreads of custom objects.

Like in Collections or Strings

When pressed, it turns purple and does not save anything.

(On the screenshot I connected a Switch to make the purple visble)

Tutorials about Object-Oriented Patching, Records vs. Classes, Mutability vs. Immutability...
Might start with #15, because its a nice introduction on how to use pads for managing data.
Then Records, then Classes - and then maybe the lifetime of objects, including the Dispose operation?

Include FFT4Bands & LinToLog when they are in standard node set.

In file 08:
The Nodes "Label", "Draw Picture" and "DrawText" (I added this to check) are red.
Same goes for file 09 and file 10.
(tried with 2021.4.12 and 2021.4.11)

The source of the problem might be the "Bounds" Node in a vvvv inherent subpatch.

Spread in a pad (created a new issue for this #15)
Process node in a loop
Other collection types
Convert collections to spreads

Broken due to input pin type change... might need conversion nodes.

• Naming

Reason is that beginners should be confronted with the concept of a Process before Pads. This needs a bit of restructuring the content inside these patches.

When the patch is started, I can not hear anything, even though the 2nd AudiPlayer in the chapter "ToMono" is supposed to be playing. This one is connected to all the Animations, so the Render-Windows show the background colors only.

Possible Fix: Set to default (as I did, that´s why i couldn´t reproduce the error for the screenshot)
Also File 10 does not work as long as the "Labels" Node is in place - as mentioned in #1.

"Label"-Node leads to the patch not working. (As already mentioned in #1)
Means nothing is visible in any Renderer. That´s why I didn´t check them further but wait for the next version from your side ;)
This is true for the following files:
8
9
11
13
14
15
16
17
19
20
21
22
24
25
26
28
29
30
31
32
33

To counter check: 1-7, 10, 12 and 27 work.

It is too short to be an own patch. Move the conversion nodes to the "Conversion" patch, drop SetAlpha and mention the Random example in the Math chapter.

Is it really right what is written in there?

as the queue/repeat always increase the count of the objects stored, they might run into performance issues after some time. considering that beginners not always close patches cleanly this might be a source of error/confusion.

consider limiting the max amount of elements

Also rename first part to "The Subatomic Particles" and the second to "The Conservation of Matter"

many of the patches should offer links to respective sections in the graybook. this helps to quickly dive deeper or to get a different view on the same topic

In case the generic Damper is added to the standard set instead of the typed implementations, it should be included in the patch.

Add sections about 3D text once the node is not experimental anymore.

Unsorted ideas and notes

• Use case: Multiple queues and splicers vs. an object definition
• Use case: Placing processes vs. creating object instances on the fly
• Making the operations of an object available as single nodes
• Manage items in a spread with a pad
• Changing upstream (Class) vs. storing in a pad (Record)
• Mutability vs. Immutability
• Serialization

When to pick a record and when a class depends on the language features one wants to use:

• Detecting changes
• Undo & Redo
• State management from multiple locations
• Performance differences

When it comes to patches 08, 09, 10, ... a beginner might need the info how to reference these libraries (e.g. Skia, Stride, Mediafoundation, ...), which is not present yet.