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<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Check out [singleton] and search the archives for discussions on that:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-03/048424.html">http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-03/048424.html</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>.hc</div><br><div><div>On Mar 23, 2008, at 4:13 PM, best boy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">hi<br>thanks for your help.<br>i checked out nopoly4 and polypoly, but they both seem to be abstractions and are not very helpful in my case.<br>i need a working solution that prevents the user from creating more than one instance of an external i'm writing.<br>thanks anyway<br>olli<br><br><blockquote><hr>CC: <a href="mailto:pd-dev@iem.at">pd-dev@iem.at</a><br>From: <a href="mailto:hans@eds.org">hans@eds.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [PD-dev] allow only one instance of external object<br>Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:43:23 -0400<br>To: <a href="mailto:ladataxi@hotmail.de">ladataxi@hotmail.de</a><br><br><div><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Check out nqpoly4 or polypoly, they are both included in Pd-extended and in SVN.</div><div><br class="EC_webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>.hc</div><br><div><div>On Mar 22, 2008, at 11:33 PM, best boy wrote:</div><br class="EC_Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote>hi<br>is there a way to keep track of the number of opened instances of an external?<br>if so, can anyone point me to an example object?<br>thanks<br>olli<br><br><hr>Kostenlos bloggen + eigene Homepage + Fotospeicher = MSN Spaces<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/mcrsddsp0020000048gbl/direct/01/" target="_blank">Kostenlos!</a><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PD-dev mailing list</div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:PD-dev@iem.at">PD-dev@iem.at</a></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev</a></div></blockquote></div><br><div><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="EC_Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. - Benjamin Franklin</div><br class="EC_Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div><br></blockquote><br><hr>Jetzt dabei sein und Windows Live Mail testen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d" target="_new">Windows Live Mail.</a></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Terrorism is not an enemy. 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