Achim and Alistair, thank you. Interesting point about the backwards evaluation, Achim.
Alistair, your patch works for me as I thought it should in the first place, though may not hold up to prolonged use? Actually the counter had stopped responding to watcher / pulses in a completely separate comp earlier in my day, and only worked properly with the Signal patch. Jerry On 7/7/10 5:41 AM, "Alastair Leith" <qc.student...@gmail.com> wrote: > This works for me: > > > > > > > More simple. > > > > The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges > him more deeply into them. > Antoine de Saint-Exupery > <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/antoinedes131176.html> > > > On 07/07/2010, at 2:52 PM, Achim Breidenbach wrote: > >> Hi Jerry, >> >> I looked into your composition (even I do not have installed a missing patch) >> I can also see, that there is something "wrong". >> >> I think the problem might be a performance optimization at the >> Multiplexer-patch choosing the empty string or the folder name from the >> String printer patch: Once the multiplexer-patch chooses Source 0 for the >> result, the backward-tree of Source 1 never gets calculated. This means, that >> the String printer don't get calculated and the Counter too. >> >> So in general if a patch isn't calculated, you have to think who is needing >> the output of that patch. The information is not been pushed forward, but >> recursively fetched from the billboard backwards. >> >> To proof this assumption I connected the Counter to the multiplexer with a >> math expression, so that is force to be calculated, but has no influence on >> the multiplexer at all: "a + b - b". Find attached your composition slightly >> modified. >> >> best, >> >> Achim Breidenbach >> Boinx Software >> >> <CommandLineTool-trigger_mkdir Achim.qtz> >> >> On 07.07.2010, at 04:41, Jerry Smith wrote: >> >>> Basic question -- how come in this patch I cannot simply connect the >>> keyboard directly to the counter to trigger new directories with the Command >>> Line Tool patch? My solution with the combo of watcher / signal / pulse >>> seems wrong to me... am I missing something? >>> >>> Thanks for any input, >>> Jerry >>> >>> <CommandLineTool-trigger_mkdir.qtz> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list (Quartzcomposer-dev@lists.apple.com) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/achim%40boinx.com >>> >>> This email sent to ac...@boinx.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list (Quartzcomposer-dev@lists.apple.com) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/qc.student.au%40gma >> il.com >> >> This email sent to qc.student...@gmail.com > >
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