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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hmm, while the idea of a single object is good, I think the object is  
clearly called "samplerate" so getting the rest of that info from it  
doesn't really make sense.

.hc

On May 23, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Or, how about three extra outlets to samplerate~ (so as not to have  
> to add
> more to the top-level namespace)
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:07:18AM +0100, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I'd personally prefer new objects:
>>
>> [blocksize~]
>> [overlap~]
>> [oversampling~]
>>
>> to match the existing:
>>
>> [samplerate~]
>>
>>
>> Rationale:
>>
>> You might want to get the blocksize etc in more than one place.
>> It might be inconvenient to patch cables from the [block~].
>> Plus the reasons that IOhannes mentioned.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Claude
>> -- 
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>>
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