[PD] A mute device

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Chuckk Hubbard hat gesagt: // Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> Hi. I came up with this as a way to mute a stream of numbers. Basically, I 
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> Is it illegal to send a "receive whatever" message to a non-GUI receive?

It is not illegal, but personally I consider renaming receives in GUI
objects a last resort, as this makes reading and understanding patches
much, much harder and can lead to subtle logic errors. For example I
had a rather hard time figuring out what your patch is supposed to do
by looking at it, until I opened all GUI objects to find the one which
has the "raty" or "nothing" receive. 

In your patch it is not necessary to make things so complicated. Using
a [spigot] makes everything much clearer, at least accoding to my
taste. 

Also your "set set $1" construct could be replaced by a simple [f]
where you can use the cold right inlet to store a number without
outputting until a bang arrives at the hot left inlet. 

I illustrated this in the attached patch based on your previous
mute.pd

Ciao
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#N canvas 67 36 868 491 12;
#X obj 94 13 inlet;
#X obj 94 43 get notes y;
#X obj 426 87 r ratmute;
#X obj 88 261 change;
#X obj 335 154 r ratsy;
#X msg 94 73 \; ratsy \$1 \; raty \$1;
#X obj 262 181 bng 15 250 50 0 empty ratskip empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144
-1 -1;
#X obj 88 233 nbx 5 14 -1e+37 1e+37 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10
-262144 -1 -1 77 256;
#X floatatom 88 293 5 0 0 0 - - -;
#X floatatom 254 43 5 0 0 0 - - -;
#X obj 88 172 r raty;
#X obj 88 204 spigot;
#X obj 154 176 r on-off;
#X msg 426 122 0;
#X obj 492 174 s on-off;
#X obj 156 198 tgl 15 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1 -1 1
1;
#X obj 246 156 r radskip;
#X floatatom 341 182 5 0 0 0 - - -;
#X floatatom 246 246 5 0 0 0 - - -;
#X obj 246 216 f;
#X obj 562 128 s radskip;
#X msg 522 127 1;
#X msg 538 55 bang;
#X obj 522 30 r ratstart;
#X obj 522 90 t b b;
#X connect 0 0 1 0;
#X connect 1 0 5 0;
#X connect 2 0 13 0;
#X connect 3 0 8 0;
#X connect 4 0 17 0;
#X connect 4 0 19 1;
#X connect 7 0 3 0;
#X connect 9 0 5 0;
#X connect 10 0 11 0;
#X connect 11 0 7 0;
#X connect 12 0 11 1;
#X connect 12 0 15 0;
#X connect 13 0 14 0;
#X connect 16 0 6 0;
#X connect 16 0 19 0;
#X connect 19 0 3 0;
#X connect 19 0 18 0;
#X connect 21 0 14 0;
#X connect 22 0 24 0;
#X connect 23 0 24 0;
#X connect 24 0 21 0;
#X connect 24 1 20 0;