[PD-dev] bang [block~] to query current blocksize

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 23, 2008, at 9:00 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I just had a thought, what about adding an outlet to [block~]  
>> that  will output the block size as a float when [block~] is  
>> banged?  I  can't think of any other way to query what the current  
>> block size is,  and it would be useful sometimes.
>
> banging [switch~] allows you to do dsp processing on demand.
> since [block~] and [switch~] are so closely related (on the Pd side  
> they are very similar (with [switch~] being a better [block~]); on  
> the C side they are the basically same) i would suggest to do any  
> additional overloading.
>
> i agree however, that it would be nice to get the current  
> blocksize, overlap and oversample from within Pd.

It seems that adding an outlet to block~/switch~ seems to be the most  
obvious interface for getting the data.  Perhaps just a message then?

.hc

>
> gfmdasrt
> IOhannes


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