AW: [PD] loadbang for externals

Krzysztof Czaja czaja at chopin.edu.pl
Sat Feb 23 17:38:08 CET 2002


hi Thomas,

it is generally better to get into the arrays when they are needed,
like in a <class>_dsp() method, not in a constructor.  Usually you
would only store an array name in <class>_new().

There might be a case, when an array should be written to by an
external object right away after the patch is loaded.  If so, there
are two ways:  a) requiring of users to explicitly connect a [loadbang]
object to an external object, or b) calling clock_new(<init-routine>)
and clock_delay(<clock>, 0) in a <class>_new() routine, then
clock_free(<clock>) in a <class>_free().

And no -- objects and arrays are created in one pass, in the same order
they happen to have their defining lines in a .pd file.  Those lines
(#X obj..., #X array...) are simply ``create this or that'' requests
to a current canvas object.

Krzysztof

Thomas Grill wrote:
...
> Is it the case that in PD all arrays are readily accessible at the creation
> of the other objects?
> I never problems with this, but i'd like to be sure that i wasn't just
> lucky....
> 
> In Max/MSP i always have to use loadbang instead of the new routine when
> using a buffer~  (same as an array in pd) as an argument to an object. They
> seem to have no special treatment there and are created just in time with
> the other objects of a patcher.



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