I've wanted to do this too -- for instance, to have a large collection of arrays and a window that could "see" one of them at a time to edit them.
It's a bit complicated to do it because every array would have to maintain a dynamic collection of pointers to every window (there could be meny) in which it was shown... unless there's a cool trick I haven't thought of yet. cheers Miller On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:26:23PM -0800, Phil Stone wrote: > This probably fits into the category of a wish for PD; I think there's > no way to do it currently, but I'd love to be proven wrong! > > I'd like to be able to change the data an array points to rather than > actually change the data in the array. The scenario which me think of > this is, I'd like to have a display of a currently-selected waveform > (which could be one of many pre-allocated arrays). It would be > wonderful to have a level of indirection where the display-array can be > given a new address [object reference?] to one of the various > pre-allocated arrays, after which it redraws itself. > > I suppose this unleashes all the evils of pointers (multiple references > to memory, etc.), but it would a serious advantage, performance-wise, > for the scenario I'm envisioning. > > I also think it would be very cool if arrays could act as buttons...but > that's a different subject. > > > Phil Stone > pkstonemusic.com > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list