[PD] Re: bug reoprt for py/pyext

[Olaf Matthes]

Hi Thomas,

I tried to do a similar thing in 'clone', which is an abstraction cloner
that runs several instances of one abstraction (very useful for CPU
tests like the one described in my last post ;-). 
Whenever one tries to reload an abstraction with a different number of
inlets or outlets Pd would need to recreate the object. This only worked
for me once: on object creation time... - When I change the abstraction
Pd does not know about this since the abstraction is completely handled
by clone. I haven't found a way to tell Pd to recreate a object box to
reflect the changes (this is only supported for abstractions). To do so
Pd would have to call functions in the object similar to the *_new() and
*_free() functions to handle the changes. May be it's possible to add
something like that to the Pd sources but I don't knwo where to start... 

BTW, clone can be found here:
http://www.akustische-kunst.org/puredata/clone/

best,
Olaf


Thomas Grill schrieb:
> 
> Hi Jerome,
> this is true... i wonder why i haven't thought of that before.
> However, the problem is that PD (or at least flext) doesn't support a change
> of the inlet/outlet configuration without a recreation of the object.
> This means that the "reload" message can't change to number of inlets if
> that changes in the script.
> 
> Hmmm, has anyone tried to change the inlets/outlets message-based and can PD
> cope with that at all?
> 
> best greetings,
> Thomas
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerome Etienne" <jme at off.net>
> To: "Thomas Grill" <t.grill at gmx.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:51 PM
> Subject: bug reoprt for py/pyext
> 
> > Hello,
> > i think your object is veryusefull as it allow pd user to do scripting
> > and gui much easier than with plain puredata. this email is just
> > a small bug report.
> >
> > "reload" message doesnt update the number of inlet in the number
> > of inlet has changed in the python script.
> >
> >
> 
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