[PD-dev] Send~ and receive does not allow you to change name with a symbol!

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

so, [throw~] can set the destination, why not use it?

Em ter., 17 de jan. de 2023 às 16:44, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>
escreveu:

>  I see, I wonder why exactly you need this, like a specific use case.
>
> One concrete example: you have a modular system where the output of an
> abstraction may be used by other abstractions, but they do not know
> anything about each other. For this you might want to use a [send~] and
> [receive~] objects where the names are chosen by the user, e.g. with symbol
> atoms.
>
> In general it's problematic if a parameter can only be set as a creation
> argument because sometimes not everything is known at creation time. This
> can be worked around with dynamic patching, but as we know, this is not
> "officially" supported.
>
> @Miller: a settable [send~] can be written easily, you just have to call
> canvas_update_dsp() after changing the name. Of course, this is not
> realtime-safe, but it's better than nothing.
>
> Christof
> On 17.01.2023 20:21, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>
> Em ter., 17 de jan. de 2023 às 16:07, Jakob Skouborg <
> syntaxerror60 at hotmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> I will check the ELSE options, thanks, all though it is the sender that
>> doesn’t offer option to change name.
>>
>> For adding it to Vanilla version, Miller gave an answer, which indicated
>> there is not an easy way to do it, without adding a block of delay. But
>> nice to see that an issue has been raised, mentioning it.
>>
>
> The issue on github is for an inlet to receive, not being able to set send
> name in [send~].
>
>
>> I just need to be able to change the send~ name.
>>
>
>  I see, I wonder why exactly you need this, like a specific use case.
>
>
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