[PD] connecting with messages

[marius schebella]

Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 19:18 -0500, Ricardo Dueñas Parada wrote:
>> Hello list, 
>>
>> I am working with messages to create objects inside a patch, I think I
>> have solved
>> the creation of the objects, but I don't know how to connect them.
>> When I create an object, its "number" depends on the objects created
>> before, and
>> the order of creation, how can I know what is the number of a certain
>> object?
>>
>> With number I mean the fields A and B in the message  [connect A X B
>> Y( , I already
>> know what A, B, X and Y are, but I don't know how to know A and B, for
>> the objects
>> I want to connect.
>>
>> Do you know what other things can I modify in a patch through
>> messages?
> 
> dynamic object creation is not yet officially supported and probably
> therefore not well documented. 

But isn't that how all pd patches get loaded, sending the lines of the 
pd file t pd?

anyway, I can also recommend [dyn] for doing stuff like that.
osx and windows binaries at http://grrrr.org/ext/beta/pd/
marius.


> 
> the only way to know the number id of each object is by implementing a
> reference counter yourself, that counts up by one each time you create
> an object. however, this will get quite tricky as soon as you start to
> remove objects, because then need to keep track, _which_ object you
> removed. 
> 
> personally, i recommend to not bother with 'connect' messages at all,
> but to use [send]s and [receive]s (and their tilde counterparts) in your
> dynamically created abstractions. it makes dynamic creation much more
> feasible and labelling stays consistent, even when removing objects.
> 
> afaik, there is a section called pd-msg-05 somewhere in the help browser
> of pd-extended, that has a list and examples of messages to pd and
> canvasses.
> 
> roman
> 
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