[PD-dev] net objects

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> Martin Peach hat gesagt: // Martin Peach wrote:
>>> I'm working on packOSC and upackOSC which interface to these  
>>> objects via lists of floats-constrained-to-be-bytes. unpackOSC  
>>> will allow routing via route instead of OSCroute since the path  
>>> will be separated into symbols and output as a list. The data  
>>> will be output as a separate list.
>> Hm, but [route] doesn't support wildcards like [OSCroute] does. Isn't
>> this a step backwards?
>
> You could just use a [route *] for the simplest wildcard type. But  
> yes, probably a special OSCroute is still needed, but it needs to  
> be settable by messages as well as creation arguments. Maybe I  
> should redo OSCroute instead...

Both options would be nice to have.  I think a better solution would  
be to make a generic route object that handles wildcards based on the  
existing route object.  The [route] in Pd core also has some other  
issues, like [route list] not always outputting a list, so a new  
route object could be nice.

The more we translate everything into generic messages, the more  
flexible Pd becomes, IMHO.

.hc

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