On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres <[email protected]> wrote:
> "I think that even in the case of an external, it's difficult to know > whether there's a signal connected to a signal inlet, or not (...) I > think Eric Lyon's externals do what you want" > > I guess it can be tricky, but not impossible. I'd be really surprised and > blown away if it turned out to be impossible. > I sent to the list about a year and a half ago, when I was writing some externals, asking about this, and I remember Miller gave a suggestion, saying it's not the most elegant but it might work. Can't remember what it was, as I never used it, but if you search the list archives, you might find it. Max has a routine that checks whether there's is a signal connected to an inlet, and this way you can choose between the argument or the incoming signal. But Pd doesn't have that afaik.. > > And I guess it is actually impossible to work this out in a patch, huh? I > wouldn't be surprised... > I'm pretty sure that yes, it's impossible. But it would be nice if someone can prove us wrong here.. > > thanks >
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