On 2010-04-01 18:11, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > > That's currently the problem with your help patch. The behavior of the > object is clear from the usage description, but then you decide to put > "per abstraction" in all caps, which made me wonder whether you mean > "per abstraction instance"-- the desired behavior-- or "per abstraction > class"-- in which case I would take it to mean right-clicking one instance > sends a bang to _all_ instances. Then you said at the bottom that "you
it does the "desired" behaviour. > cannot have [propertybang]s per subpatch," which confirms the latter (see > "2.7. subpatches"), "subpatch" in the help patch means what is commonly called "subpatch" (aka [pd]) which is a "one-off subpatch" in the docs. > which would render the object useless and make me > think it's just not finished yet. So I have to build my own abstraction > and test the object to see whether the it does something useful, which > defeats the whole purpose of having the help patch in the first place. i cannot follow. i don't like help-patches that are not self-contained (at least for what they are trying to document); in older versions [propertybang] obviously did not work for "one-off subpatches" (hence the documentation about this), which made it a bit hard to show without abstractions. otoh, creating an abstraction yourself and test whether the object indeed does what _you_ want it do, is not so complicated. anyhow, thanks for the feedback. fgasdr IOhannes PS: and yes, iemguts is basically undocumented.
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