[PD] Extreme Newbie Question: Flow Order?

[Miller Puckette]

Because I don't know left from right.  Sorry, will fix.

Miller

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:36:50PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> hi
> 
> are you talking about this?:
> 
> "2.3.3. hot and cold inlets and right to left outlet order
> 
> With few exceptions (notably "timer"), objects treat their leftmost inlet as
> "hot" in the sense that messages to RIGHT inlets can result in output
> messages."
> 
> I don't know, why here is written "RIGHT".
> 
> I'm not an absolute pd-crack, but the [+ ] behaves like a normal object.
> Normally the right inlet acts as an argument and the left inlet let the
> object output something (as you found out with the [+ ]-object.
> 
> good luck
> 
> Roman
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Supak" <ryansupak at fbcad.org>
> To: <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 5:58 PM
> Subject: [PD] Extreme Newbie Question: Flow Order?
> 
> 
> > Hi, I'm brand-new with PD.  I'm on Tutorial "03.connections", and I'm a
> > firm believer in not advancing to the next level of complexity until you
> > fully understand the level you're on.  So....
> >
> > The first bit of text in the Tutorial says that input to the rightmost
> > inlet causes the function do be done.  However, what follows is an
> > example of an addition object that only executes when the leftmost inlet
> > receives input.  (The rightmost input acts as an argument for the
> > operation in this case.)
> >
> > So, my question is this:  is there something special about the "+"
> > object that makes it an exception to the "rightmost" rule all the time,
> > or is there something special about the way it's set up that makes it an
> > exception to the rule?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for helping a novice!
> > rs
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> 
> 
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