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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 26, 2008, at 9:09 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>> exactly this is the kind of "kludge" i am talking about. i hope
>>>> that "kludge" means something really bad and ugly, as this is how i
>>>> use this word here.
>>> You mean it's a kludge if there isn't a special object for this?
>>
>> The real problem is that it's global: I may not want all my [r pd]
>> receivers to get activated every time something somewhere queries the
>> state of DSP.
>
> yep.
> a dedicated object does not have this problems.

Hmm, for DSP state, that's global, so using a global receive symbol  
makes sense, IMHO.  For other things, perhaps you could use the patch  
receive name, is [receive pd-mypatch.pd].

.hc


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