Thanks, Frank. That worked beautifully. I'm about to release something that needs this, so I guess I'll rename your new version and bundle it in with the release, until (or if) you make this part of default [sssad].
Phil Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote: > > >> I'm trying to figure out how to use [singleton] from [sssad] so that I >> can instantiate some lookup tables once and only once for use in >> multiple patches. >> >> The [singleton] help patch is a bit cryptic, but I've so far guessed >> that I can wrap the table-creating object like so: >> >> [singleton WTAB waveTables] >> > > That's correct. Sorry about the cryptic help file, I'll make a better > one. > > >> It appears that the tables are correctly allocated by this, but they are >> not initialized; i.e. the arrays are created, but the code that fills >> them in is not triggered, even though there is a [loadbang] in >> [waveTables] that's supposed to trigger it. >> >> So my question is first, am I even close to using [singleton] >> correctly? and secondly, do objects created by [singleton] get a loadbang? >> > > They don't get a loadbang, because they are dynamically created. > Dynamically created abstractions don't execute their loadbangs! > > It's possible to trigger the loadbang manually with a message to the > subpatch, the objects are created in. For singleton.pd this subpatch's > receiver is is pd-$0-container. Attached is a version of singleton > which automatically sends a loadbang message to it. After I get over > my jetlag, I'll consider making this the default in sssad's version of > singleton.pd as well. Also it may be useful to send the value of $0 to > an outlet, maybe the first one, but that may break patches which rely > on only a 0 or a 1 coming out there, so I guess I'll have to introduce > a second outlet. > > Ciao > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
