[PD] an arbitrary number of inlets - proxy?

[Fredrik Olofsson]

ok.  i actually wanted the inlets to understand both floats and 
'bang' but i guess i'll settle with just floats.
thanks Miller/IOhannes

>>Hi Fredrik,
>>
>>Well, I've never written a "proxy" object, but I should someday...  In the
>>meantime, if all you want to do is to set a floating-point value you can
>>use floatinlet_new (you can send each one a different pointer.)  If you
>>need to attach C code to it, well, you need the proxy object...
>>
>>cheers
>>Miller

>hi fredrik !
>
>unfortunately i do not know an easy way to solve your problem
>but since you are using only float-inlets (hope that i am right (?)) you
>still have a chance
>
>create your inlets/outlets like
>
>for (i=0;i<arg;i++) {
>    x->x_outlet[i] = outlet_new(&x->x_ob, &s_float);
>    floatinlet_new(&x->x_obj, &(x->x_f[i]));
>    x->x_f[i]=0;
>}
>
>when you send a float to one of your (right) inlets, its value will be
>written directly into memory (x->x_f[n]), to routine will be executed.
>getting something on the first inlet will start your procedure and you
>then can access all the floats that were set before.
>this will do most of the times.
>
>>  for is something like proxy_new() in max, which i belive is lacking
>  > in pd - right?
>being no max-user i never heard of this
>
>mgf.fd.asdf
>IOhannes