[PD] [PD-dev] bang [block~] to query current blocksize

[Charles Henry]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
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> On May 26, 2008, at 9:09 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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>> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> exactly this is the kind of "kludge" i am talking about. i hope
>>>>> that "kludge" means something really bad and ugly, as this is how i
>>>>> use this word here.
>>>> You mean it's a kludge if there isn't a special object for this?
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>>> The real problem is that it's global: I may not want all my [r pd]
>>> receivers to get activated every time something somewhere queries the
>>> state of DSP.
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>> yep.
>> a dedicated object does not have this problems.
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> Hmm, for DSP state, that's global, so using a global receive symbol
> makes sense, IMHO.  For other things, perhaps you could use the patch
> receive name, is [receive pd-mypatch.pd].

Also, you could make an explicitly local dsp state query with a little
[spigot] magic, just filtering the message.  However, it would also
trigger a message from every global state reciever that is not
filtered out.

Chuck

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