[PD] non-logical receives

[Frank Barknecht]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:47:18PM +0000, Andrew Faraday wrote:
> This might be a simple problem, but I can't see a way around it.
> I'm making a patch involving a grid of toggles (each in an abstraction, so they can have rules to control them individually, also to relay this grid to a grid of squares in gem). Basically I've already set up [s $1-$2-state], in each to send it's position to a named bus. I've also got r $1-$2-control to control each toggle remotely, but that's aside. 
> I can use messages and non-logical sends to generate control messages, like so:
> [pack f f f]|[$1-$2-control $3 (
> Which can change any of the toggles on my grid. 
> So far, all well and good.
> ======However======
> What I really need is for each abstraction to be 'aware' of it's neighbors. So while each one has two arguments, (it's co-ordinates on the grid), I need them to have receives based on it's arguments and some arithmetic. I could generate the right string for this like
> [$1]     [$2]|          |[+ 1]   [+ 1]|          |[pack f f] |[$1-$2-state(
> But I don't know of an object I can set like this. I can't find a receive which can be set with a message (in the same way that the non-logical sends can be made in a message box, it's all very perplexing).
> As ever, help would be appreciated

(Btw.: What does "non-logical" mean?)

Maybe you could work with tagged messages and "settable" [route] instead. While
[route] does not yet have an inlet to set its routing parameter like [select]
does (I think, it's planned or implemented in 0.43 for [route] as well) you can
fake a settable route with [select] and [list] (see e.g. the sroute.pd in
[list]-abs and attached). Instead of sending to "$1-$2-control" you send a
message starting with "$1-$2-control" to some global receiver.

The receiver then goes into [route $1-$2-control], or some variant of this like
[sroute $1-$2-control] which you can rename.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht            Do You RjDj.me?          _ ______footils.org__
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