[PD] Trigger bug?

[Thomas Ouellet Fredericks]

Trigger does take an "a" as an argument. It stands for "anything". Attached 
is the documentation distributed with Miller's PD since it seems you have a 
different source of information.

Tom

#N canvas 58 142 689 359 12;
#X msg 28 149 2.5;
#X msg 126 151 bang;
#X msg 68 150 23 64;
#X obj 28 242 print x1;
#X obj 112 242 print x2;
#X obj 196 240 print x3;
#X obj 43 26 trigger;
#X obj 286 241 print x4;
#X text 114 27 - sequence messages in right-to-left order;
#X text 417 331 updated for Pd version 0.33;
#X text 81 290 the above can be abbreviated as:;
#X msg 172 152 symbol dog;
#X text 39 59 The trigger object outputs its input from right to left
\, converting to the types indicated by its creation arguments. There
is also a "pointer" argument type (see the pointer object.);
#X obj 381 293 t f b l s a;
#X msg 466 167 dog my cats;
#X obj 466 199 trigger bang anything;
#X obj 374 242 print x5;
#X obj 466 240 print y1;
#X obj 552 242 print y2;
#X obj 28 202 trigger float bang symbol list anything;
#X text 464 122 "anythings" can only;
#X text 461 142 be converted to bang:;
#X connect 0 0 19 0;
#X connect 1 0 19 0;
#X connect 2 0 19 0;
#X connect 11 0 19 0;
#X connect 14 0 15 0;
#X connect 15 0 17 0;
#X connect 15 1 18 0;
#X connect 19 0 3 0;
#X connect 19 1 4 0;
#X connect 19 2 5 0;
#X connect 19 3 7 0;
#X connect 19 4 16 0;


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brendan asselstine" <bstine at telus.net>
To: "Thomas Ouellet Fredericks" <iamonthebeach at hotmail.com>
Cc: <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] Trigger bug?


> The trigger object doesn't take "a" as an argument- check the 
> documentation.  I think it's reading the 'a' as an 'f' for a float, if you 
> replace 'a' with 'f' it produces the same results, but [t b b] gives a 
> bang out of both outlets.
>
> read the documentation, it'll help when your patching because sometimes 
> there are good work arounds or lesser used objects.
>
> -brendan
>
> Thomas Ouellet Fredericks wrote:
>
>> Please see attached patch. I think there is a bug in the trigger object. 
>> "A" converts BANG to 0.
>>
>> #N canvas 227 220 645 320 12;
>> #X obj 130 72 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
>> -1;
>> #X obj 136 109 t a b;
>> #X obj 129 179 print a;
>> #X obj 197 135 print b;
>> #X text 196 179 <-- I consider this a bug \, what do you think?;
>> #X text 220 199 It should print BANG \, not 0;
>> #X connect 0 0 1 0;
>> #X connect 1 0 2 0;
>> #X connect 1 1 3 0;
>>
>>
>> Tom
>
>
> 
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