[PD] gate's problem

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:08 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Andy Farnell wrote:
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:21:21 +0100
>> From: Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>
>> To: isabel_pires at excite.com
>> Subject: Re: [PD] gate's problem
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:52:04 -0400 (EDT)
>> "Isabel Pires" <isabel_pires at excite.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> good morning,
>>>
>>> I have some problems with "gate". when I open saved patch the  
>>> with gate's
>>> objet I ha the message "couldn't create" but if I rename the  
>>> object it
>>> is create.
>>
>> rename it to [iemlib/gate] and it should always load ok
>
> at least when you are using pd-extended (which i don't know).

This would also work on Pd-vanilla or devel if you have the iemlib  
objects installed into extra/iemlib.

.hc

> and only if you are really using iemlib's [gate]; there are several
> others which behave differently.
>
>
> the (imho) better solution would be to use [spigot] instead of [gate],
> since this is a built-in and does not require _any_ hack.
>
> iemlib's [gate]'s only feature (as compared to [spigot]) was that you
> could set it's initial state with arguments.
> since recent versions of pd, [spigot] does the same. so there are
> exactly 0 reasons to continue using this object.
>
>
> fgmasdr
> IOhanens
>
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