If I may make a suggestion - when I find that an object isn't terribly well designed (for example my own qlist :) I make another one, with another name, that does the job better (text).
cheers Miller On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:51:03PM -0200, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > Well, newer patches with newer functionalities not working in older > versions is how things go anyway, right? Vanilla 0-46 patches don't run in > 0.45 and so on... there's no way around that I guess. > > > the dual outlet layout with message left and > > signal right is rather unusual. > > But I think it's also simpler and more straightforward than introducing > flags, arguments and all. It might be unusual, but there are already some > objects with similar design, I actually thought of that because of > [sampstoms~] and [mstosamps~] - it'd be basically the same design. > > cheers > > 2015-12-22 19:48 GMT-02:00 katja <[email protected]>: > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > If we're discussing [average~], how about my idea of having a second > > right > > > signal outlet as default? I think it's an easy and simple solution. Help > > > file would explain how the left control outlet is for backwards > > > compatibility. Done. > > > > Yes that would be an easy way to incorporate Fred Jan's signal average > > output into the existing class. But note that both solutions, dual > > mode and dual outlet, have a similar forward incompatibility effect. A > > patch that uses the right signal outlet of a new version won't run > > with an old average~ binary. So the pros and cons of both solutions > > are comparable, with the small difference that the dual outlet layout > > with message left and signal right is rather unusual. > > > > Katja > > > _______________________________________________ > [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
