[PD] Array Enhancements

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Sat, 9/19/09, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Array Enhancements
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "puredata mailing list" <pd-list at iem.at>, "Si Mills" <smills at rootsix.net>
> Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 10:44 PM
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Jonathan Wilkes
> wrote:
> 
> > Do you mean a struct having *arrays* x, y, and z
> like:
> > [struct foo array x x-element array y y-element array
> z z-element]
> > ?
> 
> No, sorry, just [struct foo float x float y float z] used
> as the template of an array. I thought that we were talking
> about that...
> 
> > Then [tabwrite~ foo] writes to all arrays in foo, and
> [tabwrite~ bar] writes to array y of foo if you use
> [virtualarray foo bar y].  Do I have it right, or am I
> completely misunderstanding?
> 
> I mean that with the struct foo above, and an array named
> foo using struct foo as its template, you could make a
> virtual array named bar, which would be an actual subpart of
> the array foo, using a different template, which would have
> to be some kind of substruct of the original template.

Oh, I see.
So how would you get an array named foo to use struct foo as its 
template, as opposed to the hidden float struct?

> 
> >> I know this is probably flawed for I know not the
> inner technical workings of Pd, or for its purposes, there
> are other more suitable methods for gui interaction, but is
> any of this possible? cheers
> > I don't believe I wrote this.
> 
> why do you say that?

Because it doesn't have the name of the author above it (Si Mills) so 
it looks like you're responding to me.

-Jonathan

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