[PD-dev] bang [block~] to query current blocksize

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On May 23, 2008, at 9:00 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> I just had a thought, what about adding an outlet to [block~]  
>>> that  will output the block size as a float when [block~] is  
>>> banged?  I  can't think of any other way to query what the current  
>>> block size is,  and it would be useful sometimes.
>> banging [switch~] allows you to do dsp processing on demand.
>> since [block~] and [switch~] are so closely related (on the Pd side  
>> they are very similar (with [switch~] being a better [block~]); on  
>> the C side they are the basically same) i would suggest to do any  
>> additional overloading.
>>
>> i agree however, that it would be nice to get the current  
>> blocksize, overlap and oversample from within Pd.
> 
> It seems that adding an outlet to block~/switch~ seems to be the most  
> obvious interface for getting the data.  Perhaps just a message then?

I'd personally prefer new objects:

[blocksize~]
[overlap~]
[oversampling~]

to match the existing:

[samplerate~]


Rationale:

You might want to get the blocksize etc in more than one place.
It might be inconvenient to patch cables from the [block~].
Plus the reasons that IOhannes mentioned.


Thanks,


Claude
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