[PD-dev] using ugen_getsortno() in an external

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:57 PM, geiger wrote:

>
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> So it sounds like ugen_getsortno() is what I need for my idea to have
>> the first executed instance of an [hid] get the data from the OS
>> while the rest just output from an array.  But ugen_getsortno() is
>> only declared in d_delay.c.  Are there any externals that have used
>> ugen_getsortno() before?  Is there any change of this becoming an
>> external function, even in the alpha s_stuff.h sense?
>
> I haven't looked at the code, but from the name it seems that
> ugen_getsortno() only applies to the dsp graph, not to general
> message objects.
>
> You could implement your idea by having a global flag that shows
> you which instance has been executed first

How would that flag get reset with each DSP cycle?

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