[PD] potentially n00bish question, confused about cross platform gate?

[doktorp]

Frank, Thanks. it seems as though my friends libraries were indeed 
loading in an odd order, or well, not the appropriate order for this 
patch.

thanks all.

doktorp

http://homepage.mac.com/doktorp/
On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> doktorp hat gesagt: // doktorp wrote:
>
>> since it seems my 'gate' object is non-standard,
>
>
>> 1) why is it included in the OS X installer package, if it can
>> potentially break others patches/not work with their PD?.
>
> The OS-X installer includes many useful so called "externals", which
> are extensions written by other authors. They are included because
> they are useful---you yourself also seemed to find [gate] useful---but
> if you want to make sure, everyone can open your patches, you either
> should specify which externals you use so others can install them as
> well, or use only internal objects. Almost everything that is in
> lib/extra and lib/externs is an external (fiddle~, bonk~ and the expr
> family are externals, but they are distributed with pd upstream, so
> they should be fine).
>
>> 2) where can one get either switch (im not using msp chains so I
>> dont/cant use switch~) or the version of gate that allows for n>2
>> outlets with an int specified for the selected outlet to open and 0
>> to close all? 3) see points 1. and 2. =)
>
> Build an abstraction using only internal objects. The Cyclone
> collection also includes a [switch] external. (I don't know why you
> don't have it as well, as you seem to have Cyclone externals
> installed.)
>
> It would be better to built your needed funcionality as an
> abstraction, though, for portability. I attached an example I quickly
> hacked together while writing this mail. Excercise for the reader: Add
> a last outlet a la [route] that allows 8gate to be chained.
>
> Ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
> <8gate.pd><8gate-help.pd>
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