[PD-dev] different send/receive behaviour on cvs version of PD

[stotz]

ok, seems like a version mess-up on my computer then. sorry for the confusion

ciao

oliver

Quoting Krzysztof Czaja <czaja at chopin.edu.pl>:

> hi oliver,
> 
> stotz wrote:
> ...
>  > unlike in the offcial 0.36-0 version, "send" and "receive" take a
> "set"-message
> 
> [receive] from cvs does not accept 'set' message, currently
> (afaik), because nobody knows how to do it both safely, and
> efficiently, without changing the way Pd handles symbol bindings
> internally.
> 
> I suggested once (long time ago) a solution of providing a special,
> settable, argumentless [r], working less efficiently than the
> usual, not settable [r] with an argument -- as is the case with
> the c74's [r].
> 
>  > to change their argument. though this is generally a good thing, it leads
> to
>  > quite a few problems with my old patches.
>  >
>  > (for example, i often send "set"-messages to sliders remotely, so they
> change
>  > their state without sending output. with the new version of send/receive
> i
>  > would change the remote names with the "set" message ...)
> 
> this is why [send] is not settable in max -- there is a separate
> [forward] object instead.
> 
> Krzysztof
>