[PD-dev] loadbang order

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Wed Aug 17 08:32:04 CEST 2005


On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> it's like having an abstraction like this after the inlets:
> |inlet data|
> | |loadbang|
> | |flush(
> |/             
> |pipe infinity|
> |outlet data|
> misusing pipe as message queue ...

Why do you call it a misuse ?

> similar to gemheads ... this would solve about about 99.999% of the
> cases, unless someone uses loadbang f, where f is the lowest number
> represented by t_float / the lowest number that a pd patch can save...

Well I don't claim to protect the user against him/herself and using such 
numbers in loadbang priorities has to be a quite deliberate act *and* 
loadbang priorities don't propagate across .pd files so no person can
inflict that upon another.

> well, i somehow like to have a solution covering all cases ...

Which cases am I missing???

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