[PD] how to send named commands/arguments to an abstraction?

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Rua Haszard Morris hat gesagt: // Rua Haszard Morris wrote:

> I am having fun making an abstraction. I want it to be able to respond
> to "messages"/commands in a similar way to externals. For example,
> imagine an abstraction that has 1 inlet, and if it gets (from the
> parent patch) "file filename.mid" then it reads that file, or if it
> gets "bpm 120" it sets the bpm to 120, or if it gets "loop 0" it turns
> off looping, or if it gets "bang" or "play" it starts playing. What
> object(s) do I use to set up something like this?
> 
> How do I set this up? I've mucked around with pack/unpack but it seems
> i'm totally barking up the wrong tree. I'm sure if I had a look at a
> simple example abstraction I'd figure it out but I'm still at the
> flailing about blindly stage!

You generally use [route] for that, but maybe you also like the
[dispatcher] abstraction, which automates some things when dealing with
inlet-methods:
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-03/048303.html

Ciao
-- 
Frank