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

Miller Puckette mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu
Tue Aug 1 00:52:55 CEST 2006


I use textfile for sequencing messages 'locally'.  It has fewer built-in
sequencing aids than qlist but is far cleaner and more general in design.

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:07:22AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 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
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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