Just one small detail: to work with pointers you only need a canvas to place them in, no graphics after necessary. But yes, it's very cumbersome to do any operation with them.
Patrice Colet <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 12. Feb. 2026, 12:58: > Hello, > > just to add my brain fart too, pointers are the most efficient data > storing/retrieving I've ever met in PureData, but it also the most > complicated to manage in a patch without crashing the whole thing... > Pointers have get set methods and can store all PureData types, and it's > very fast, if not the the fastes method. Meanwhile, it's dedied to > graphical stuff and not very convenient for users that are not very very > experimented, and maybe also for the experimented ones, otherwise there > would be already many proposals for managing pointers. > > best regards > > > Le 12 févr. 2026 à 12:46, Sam Ross <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > Hi, this may just be a brain fart as I'm no dev and am not acquainted > with json/the nested structures you are talking about, but it strikes me > that [list store] could be used to make a more flexible [value] type > object, by using the fact you can send it the [send $0/foo( message to > request the list... with an abstraction based on this you could have at > least have arbitrary list-based variables that you could dynamically get & > set. Just mentioning it in case it sparks anything off for anyone, please > disregard if not! > > > > Cheers, Sam. > > --- > > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > > > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/BJPXLYM6ON4VM3PRXYQLTJ3V64HTQ7JT/ > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/ > > > --- > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/FW2D7LIMZROUNTUX36U2MW7RZ6YMU6PT/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/
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