[PD-dev] how to tell when a patch is finished loading

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I'm playing around with some GUI behaviors, and I was wondering if  
>> anyone knows a way to tell that the patch is finished loading and  
>> 'pd' has finished sending all of the Tcl/sys_gui drawing commands.
>> This would be a very useful hook for attaching Tcl procs for making  
>> dynamic GUI behaviors.
>
> just ping the client... depends a bit on the branch...
>
> miller: sys_gui("pd %s done \\;\n",rcv->s_name);
> hans:   sys_gui("pdsend \"%s done\"\n",rcv->s_name);
> matju:  sys_gui("netsend \"%s done\"\n",rcv->name);
>
> provided that you have done pd_bind((t_pd *)self,rcv); and a  
> class_addmethod for the name "done" (the callback).

Are there any existing methods?  I am actually thinking Tcl/GUI side.

.hc

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