[PD] datastruct newbie mistake

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Oct 3 19:12:23 CEST 2006


On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> so the only way you can delete the t_scalar safely is by first deleting
>> all t_gpointers that refer to it, but that's not possible... anyone
>> correct me if I'm wrong. (I'll touch that code again eventually, but maybe
>> not this year)
> Late answer: It is already perfectly possible to delete a scalar in
> edit mode: Select it and press Backspace. What's missing is a way to
> do this though other means, e.g. by a message to the pointer or though
> a "disappend" object.

ah cool, then if that feature is already safe in the sense that you can do 
that without risk of ever crashing [pointer] [get] [set] and stuff, then 
that should be easy to add to pd itself.

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