--- On Sun, 1/17/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] 'synced' number and slider > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 8:20 PM > Quoting "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]>: > > > > I don't think writing a self-documenting patch and the > use of iem gui > > objects are mutually exclusive; after all, I use iem > guis in the example > > patch you are referring to. > > > > It's just that for the particular behavior of linking > two iem guis, I > > wouldn't rely on whatever it is that happens when you > make all the > > send/receive names the same. Instead, I would > use something like the > > "explicitly patched" version and shove it all in a > gop. Then if you > > decide after many months that you want to send a value > to one of the iem > > guis, for example, and have all the linked iem guis > update their values, > > it will work (and you can easily check for bugs by > opening the gop > > window). If you try the same thing with the > send/receive name trick, > > it will fail, and if you're like me and have a hard > time reading the > > source code, then there's (currently) no quick way to > figure out why it > > doesn't work because it's not documented in the help > patches for the > > iem guis. > > the send/receive "magic" in the iemguis are explicitely > designed to allow the same send/receive names in order to > sync several different objects. So is it a bug that sending input to the inlet of one GUI doesn't set the value for all other GUI's with the same send/receive name? -Jonathan > of course you can do this explicitely. iemguis just help to > make this simpler.. > > > mfgasdr > IOhannes > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging > Program. > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > [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
