[GEM-dev] Growing pix_buffer?

[Jack]

Le vendredi 12 mars 2010 à 14:12 -0800, B. Bogart a écrit :
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm use pix_buffers to store non-sequential images based on index.
> 
> I'd like to be able to grow a pix_buffer by 1 element at a time.
> 
> [add < would add a single slot to the end of the buffer. Its index would 
> be calculated from the length of the buffer.
> 
> The object could initiated as a growing pix_buffer by using a 0 as the 
> size argument.
> 
> There could be an upper limit of how many slots the buffer could grow 
> to. Or a second argument could define the max size, but then it would 
> need to send a signal when the buffer reached max, so maybe keeping 
> tracking of the size on the PD side would work better...
> 
> Anyhow I'm just thinking aloud here.
> 
> The only alternative I can think of is using a bunch of pix_buffers, 
> each holding a single image, that get dynamically created. That is bound 
> to be a lot less efficient, and certainly uglier than a central storage 
> area.
In this case, you can use [pix_texture] to store your 'image' instead of
[pix_buffer].
++

Jack


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