[PD] qlist doesn't recognize "$0-whatever"

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
David Powers hat gesagt: // David Powers wrote:

> I was thinking of building a sequencer with qlist, but I noticed a major
> defect: qlist doesn't seem to recognize the "$0-whatever" notation for
> dynamically specifying receive objects in subpatches. Would you consider
> this a design flaw, and is there any workaround? 

I consider this a design flaw. Of course, [qlist] cannot deal with $0, as
$0 only exists in a running Pd and the qlist-file is stored
externally, but what I would prefer is a [qlist] that does not
automatically send to the first element of the stored list (minus the
time) but instead would simply output to an outlet just as [textfile]
does. Then the sending could be done with the usual Pd objects or with
direct connections.

> It would be nice to have multiple instances of my sequencer, rather
> than having to modify each instance with different send/receive
> objects inside. But maybe if I'm using numbers, I'd be better off
> building from scratch using arrays and my own textfile object
> anyway...

[pipe] is a nice alternative sequencer, especially if combined with
data structures as sequence storage space because [pipe] can delay
pointers as well, and these pointer even can carry their own starting
time inside.

Ciao
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