[PD-dev] [stdout] in extra

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Good idea... but unfortunately it generalizes to any object that  
> has an
> 'anything' method plus other specific ones, so if I started doing this
> I wouldn't know where to stop!

Sounds good to me. :) I prefer inlets over custom message selectors  
when possible.  I think they are cleaner and easier to use.

> BTW, the help window doesn't make it clear, but the main reason for  
> having
> stdout is for use with pd~.

Ah, that makes sense.  On that note, a [pdwindow] or [console] object  
for getting the data from the Pd window would be quite handy.

.hc

>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 08:11:02PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I just checked out [stdout] in pd 0.42 in extra, looks like a handy
>> object.  One comment, what about adding a second inlet that you can
>> bang for the flush?  This would be instead of the "flush" message.
>> Then the first inlet can always just be passed straight through to
>> stdout.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
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