[PD] sending to arbitrary receivers

[Orm Finnendahl]

Hi Günter,

my concerns are exactly the same as your's. My thoughts go along the
following lines:

1. add a right inlet to send the way you suggest (which wouldn't break
   anything).

2. if send gets initialized without argument, the first element of a
   received list is the target. This could break things although it
   seems rather unlikely that anybody ever used send without
   arguments, as any message received in such an object would get
   discarded.

What do you think? I can apply the changes and post the patch against
x_connective.c to the list (is that the way to go?)

--
Orm

Am 10. August 2006, 18:44 Uhr (+0200) schrieb geiger:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > does anybody know a way to send arbitrary length messages to arbitrary
> > receivers? I would like to send OSC messages of variable length to pd,
> > specifying the receiver in the first element of the message. It has to
> > be completely dynamic as I want to create pd subpatchers dynamically,
> > so OSCroute won't work.
> >
> > It would be possible, if e.g. the send object allowed for a set
> > message (or have a right inlet for setting the receiver), or if it was
> > possible to use message boxes with Dollarsigns for arbitrary length
> > messages.
> >
> > Before patching pd's send I thought to better ask for a standard way
> > to get this done.
> 
> Hi Orm,
> 
> I recently had the same problem. There is an external send13 (in ext13)
> that accepts a set message. This solution is bad, because then you
> can't send "set" messages anymore. I think the best thing would be
> to have a second inlet to send, if you go that way it would be great
> if you could put your solution on the patch tracker.
> 
> Günter
> 
> PS: I couldnt find a standard way either ... maybe someone else knows.