[PD] [; pd init(

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Sep 18 20:15:02 CEST 2007


On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Miller Puckette wrote:

> "init" is one of many messages that Pd and its gui send back and forth, which
> aren't intended to have any user-level functionality... of course, some
> of those messages like "connect" have proved useful at the user level; but
> none of them are guaranteed to do anything useful or even to be safe.  The
> only one that's "supported" is "dsp" for turning audio computation on and off.

It's not "supported", not guaranteed and not intended to be used, yet if 
you'd remove support for that, people would scream like crazy. It's a bit 
like illegal immigrants: the state won't give them an official status and 
the state can't function without them.

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