[PD] Graph on parent, block~, switch~ questions

thewadde pdman at aproximation.org
Tue May 17 02:52:47 CEST 2005


Hi list-of-the-gods!

I have but a few questions this time:

1. Is there an object that can turn of and on graph on parent?
   Some times its nice to configure things via a gui but to be
   able to turn all that off on the objects that are just
   recieveing messages would be nice. Also if I put a bunch of
   graph on parent objects inside a [pd bla] type subpatch
   will their gui\'s still eat cpu power?

2. Lets say I have an external that I can send a message to,
   that can turn switch~ off andd on: if I turn the external
   off can I still send a message to it to turn it back on?
   (I will experiment with this when I get home...)

3. Setting an external to have a low blocksize using [block~]
   forces the external to be computed more frequently (because
   of the small blocksize) and therefor consume more cpu,
   right?

I ask these silly questions becasue I madde a bunch of graph
on parent patches, but for most of them once there configured
they can just recieve messages, and I would like to elimiate
the popping I get when I have a bunch of the gop externals
loaded and I move the mouse or drag an object (without
increasing the latency that is...)

Thanks list!
-thewade
ps: I have a piece in a performance on sat and sun that uses
PD on my 64-bit machine! Wish me luck!

Extra credit:
Is there a way to force tabread4~ to read only even samples?
On 64bit tabread returns goodd values if I read only even
samples (obviously becasue the lower 32 bits have the value
and the upper are all zeros, but the increment is 32, so
[line]
[t f f]
[- ]\\[% 2]
[tabread]
works ok. [tabread~




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