Actually, after using it for a while the worst downside is that it uses so many "key" events in the dynamic patching, which trigger [key] elsewhere in the patch.
It seems to me that getting the creation args of an abstraction with a float or testing to see if a creation argument exists is a vanilla-level problem that would be best solved with a new object in vanilla. At some point it might be worthwhile to enumerate the features of Pd's objectclass API that can't be emulated well with abstractions (for instance, a left inlet that can take both signals and messages). Matt On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Matt Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another downside, probably the most annoying, is that some of the > dynamic patching needs to make the helper subpatch visible for a very > short amount of time -- but it can show up... probably there's a way > around that. > > Matt > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Matt Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear Hans and List: >> >> Attached is a .zip of a possible solution. You can unzip and open >> "getcreationargstest.pd". In this patch, you'll find a >> [getcreationargstest_abs] abstraction with a bunch of float and symbol >> arguments. Open it up and have fun -- [getcreationargs] is the main >> abstraction -- there are two dependencies: 1) [digiter] which is an >> abstraction that iterates the digits of an integer, and 2) [log10] >> which is a base-ten log abstraction used in [digiter]. >> >> There are some downsides to it: >> >> 1) it requires helper abstractions. >> 2) it requires a helper subpatch in the parent (the name of this >> patch is the creation argument to [getcreationargs]. >> 3) it uses some rather arcane dynamic patching which might break in the >> future. >> 4) when it's used it sets the dirty flag. >> >> >> I think this could at least be something like the right idea.... also >> I haven't tested on all platforms, and it's for 0.40 or greater. >> >> Lemme know what you think! >> >> Matt >> >> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
