Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-23 Thread Atte André Jensen
Chris McCormick wrote: I understand. You want throw-away auto-ids. I'm not sure if anyone has come up with a satisfactory way of doing that, but I will have a think about it. At least auto-ids. They shouldn't be thrown more away than they are the same next time :-) Incidentally, How I

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Atte André Jensen hat gesagt: // Atte André Jensen wrote: I have an abstraction that counts the beats (or 1/8 notes or other note values) and sends out 0, 1, 2, 3 etc for every beat. The idea is to instantiate this for every instrument that needs to know about time. So in one piece

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-23 Thread Atte André Jensen
Frank Barknecht wrote: I don't yet understand: What exactly do you want to store? Such tickers would have gui-switches for which parts (like in structure) they're active in. That's what I'd like to store... So for sssad: You can use keys like [sssad $0-somekey] but as soon as you save them

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-23 Thread Damian Stewart
Atte André Jensen schreef: So for sssad: You can use keys like [sssad $0-somekey] but as soon as you save them to a file or message box, you will have something like 1026-somekey in your storage and you can only restore it if you're lucky because 1026 doesn't equal $0. 1026 even is a

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-23 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Damian Stewart wrote: Atte André Jensen schreef: So for sssad: You can use keys like [sssad $0-somekey] but as soon as you save them to a file or message box, you will have something like 1026-somekey in your storage and you can only restore it if you're lucky because 1026 doesn't equal $0.

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-23 Thread Atte André Jensen
Damian Stewart wrote: my state saving system is current a piece of paper with pencil numbers scrawled all over it. I like paper, but I think sssad is cooler :-) -- peace, love harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk

[PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-22 Thread Atte André Jensen
Hi Can I expect $0 to always be the same in a given abstraction every time I load a patch? The reason I ask, is I'd like to use $0 as an unique identifier together with sssad... -- peace, love harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk |

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-22 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 22:37 +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote: Hi Can I expect $0 to always be the same in a given abstraction every time I load a patch? The reason I ask, is I'd like to use $0 as an unique identifier together with sssad... from my experience: yeah, if you open your

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-22 Thread Atte André Jensen
Roman Haefeli wrote: it is recommended to do your own counter, that only counts what really needs to be counted for your state saving. Thanks for the advice, I'll take this route. -- peace, love harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk |

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-22 Thread Chris McCormick
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:37:44PM +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote: The reason I ask, is I'd like to use $0 as an unique identifier together with sssad... Is this so you can save and load different groups of pre-sets separately? I have been trying to think of a nice portable solution to that

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-22 Thread Atte André Jensen
Chris McCormick wrote: Is this so you can save and load different groups of pre-sets separately? I have been trying to think of a nice portable solution to that problem, using sssad. I have some ideas, but nothing concrete yet. No. I have an abstraction that counts the beats (or 1/8 notes or

Re: [PD] is $0 the same on every load?

2008-07-22 Thread Chris McCormick
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 07:25:58AM +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote: Chris McCormick wrote: Is this so you can save and load different groups of pre-sets separately? I have been trying to think of a nice portable solution to that problem, using sssad. I have some ideas, but nothing concrete