[Pipet Users] Command Compilation in Piper: A Discourse

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> 
> I'd like to comment on your use of "processor", "flag" and "filemane" type of
> nodes. For Overflow  (PL), a Node is a Node and there's no such discrimination.

The nodes in your screenshot are "Add" nodes, and they have a certain
function: To add strings.  It's pretty much what "flag" and "filename" do,
except in my example the strings can be changed:

For "flag", the user can change the string with a pull-down menu.

For "filename", the name of the connected document is the string.

Perhaps where you have set "constant", "INI", and even "POV", we would have a
"variable" node, or something to hold these values.

> I'm attaching a screenshot (taken with vflow) of how I see building command
> lines in Piper. Here, the Constant would contain the string -I, and the INI and
> POV inputs would contain the two filenames (as strings). The ExecStream Node
> would have povray as a parameter. The Add nodes would just concatenate strings
> together. Now, the whole network you see could be used as a simple node that
> would take two strings as input. Does that make sense to you?

Yeah, we're talking basically about the same kind of network, except where I
have written

 +-----------+      +------+        +----------+        +----------+
 | processor | ---> | flag | -----> | filename | -----> | filename |
 +-----------+      +------+        +----------+        +----------+

you have written the reverse, and the names have changed:

 +------------+       +------+        +-----+           +----------+
 | ExecStream | <---- | Add  | <----- | Add | <-------- | constant |
 +------------+       +------+        +-----+           +----------+
                         ^               ^
                         |               |
                         |               |
                        POV             INI

Yours is of course the actual way to implement this, since it has worked for
you :-)  I should modify my document.

Cheers.
Jeff
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