The idea was originally so that the 'get', etc, objects could look up the field offset and type in advance to be more efficient. I've never implemented that though.
AND I do want to make an out so that you don't have to specify it, anyway. cheers Miller On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 01:17:58PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > Hi, > I'm revising the helpfiles, and I noticed some weird behavior while > looking at pointer-help.pd: > 1. Hook up a [get template1 y] to the first pointer example. > 2. Traverse and click "next" to the end of the list. > > 3. Get happily outputs the y field for template2 without error. > > Which makes me wonder- why must template names be given as arguments > to get/set/setsize/getsize? Template names in [pointer] already give you > traffic control. > > It would be a lot handier if you could just specify a field, and leave it > up to the user to provide pointers to ds instances that have that field. > Bonus: you could have a bunch of different ds's in a window, and poll all > x and y coordinates with a single [get]. > > -Jonathan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [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
