[PD] array indirection

[Chuckk Hubbard]

It would be possible, if not CPU-efficient, to have them all hidden in
table objects, and simply use tabread and tabwrite to copy them to the
skeleton array when you want to switch.  You would only need one
tabread and tabwrite pair, just different ways to specify the target
of tabread.
I would envision binding the tab key to page through them.

But it is possible to put several arrays in one graph which makes me
wonder if there might even be a pure GUI way to do it.  Kind of makes
me want to take a look...

-Chuckk

On Dec 8, 2007 10:26 PM, Phil Stone <pkstone at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> This probably fits into the category of a wish for PD; I think there's
> no way to do it currently, but I'd love to be proven wrong!
>
> I'd like to be able to change the data an array points to rather than
> actually change the data in the array.  The scenario which me think of
> this is, I'd like to have a display of a currently-selected waveform
> (which could be one of many pre-allocated arrays).  It would be
> wonderful to have a level of indirection where the display-array can be
> given a new address [object reference?] to one of the various
> pre-allocated arrays, after which it redraws itself.
>
> I suppose this unleashes all the evils of pointers (multiple references
> to memory, etc.), but it would a serious advantage, performance-wise,
> for the scenario I'm envisioning.
>
> I also think it would be very cool if arrays could act as buttons...but
> that's a different subject.
>
>
> Phil Stone
> pkstonemusic.com
>
>
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