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<span>Hi.</span></div>
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I'm starting to dwelve into pd's C side of things. I'm having a really hard time figuring stuff out. (i have mainly experience with more high-level languages like Java, etc)</div>
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I'm trying to experiment with some editor features and i've been wandering: </div>
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why the <b>_inlet</b> and <b>_outlet </b>structures are defined in <i>m_obj.c </i>
instead of <i>m_pd.h</i> ?</div>
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This way i can't access the structure members. I'm trying to traverse an t_object's t_outlets linked list but</div>
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t_outlet *o = selected_object->te_outlet;</div>
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but this throws me an "dereferencing incomplete type" error since there is no definition for
<b>t_outlet</b> inside <i>m_pd</i>.</div>
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The same goes for accessing members of <b>t_outconnect</b> for example, but there are two methods that allows you to traverse the connections linked list</div>
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obj_starttraverseoutlet()<i> (m_imp.h)<i style=" font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">(m_obj.c)</i></i><br>
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<div>But i couldn't find any method to traverse an <b>t_object</b>'s linked list of
<b>t_outlets. </b>The only three methods that seems to return <b>t_outlets</b> pointers are</div>
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<div>t_outlet *outlet_new(t_object *owner, t_symbol *s)
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<div>t_outlet *canvas_addoutlet(t_canvas *x, t_pd *who, t_symbol *s) <i> (g_graph.c)</i><br>
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<div>and </div>
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<div>t_outlet *voutlet_getit(t_pd *x) <i> (g_io.c)</i><br>
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<div>which i currently do not understand but doesn't seem to be what i'm looking for.</div>
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<div>How could i traverse from, lets say the <i style="">g_editor.c</i> file, all the
<b style="">t_inlet</b>s and <b>t_outlet</b>s of an <b>t_object</b>?</div>
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<div><span style=" font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Btw, on a second question, what exactly are vinlets and voutlets? </span><br>
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<div><span style=" font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Cheers,</span></div>
<div><span style=" font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Henri.</span></div>
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