[PD-dev] Add a gemhead-style render priority to separator?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

bbogart at ryerson.ca wrote:
> Hey GEM Devs,
> 
> I'm working on a little patch here for Matt and My PD workshop coming up.
> 
> I'm using a group of GEM objects by using a single gemhead sent to multiple (abstraction) subchains via send & separator.
> In this case there are multiple Geos, but only one gemhead, I had the anoyance to discover that the render order ended up being the reverse of the order the abstractions were loaded.
> Ie the first abstraction being loaded ends up being the top of the render stack, the last loaded being the bottom. (I really don't now why this is)
> Anyhow I thought it would be great if separator had a gemhead style numeric render priority argument to give each separator subchain a render order.
> 
> doable?
hi,
you have a very common pd (max-alike)-"problem" with order forcing.
when connecting several objects to one outlet, the order of execution is 
not defined..
i just use [t a a a a] (this really works with Gem>0.87) to make sure 
which sub-chain is rendered when.


mfg.as.rd
IOhannes