[PD] list of creation arguments
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Wed Apr 29 17:52:48 CEST 2009
On Apr 29, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Luke Iannini wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:47:46PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>> Here's a pd-vanilla subpatch that outputs an abstraction's
>>>> creation
>>>> arguments as a list. Just copy and paste "pd arguments" to your
>>>> abstraction and it should work. It will output a single bang
>>>> only if
>>>> no
>>>> creation arguments are supplied, so you can check whether they
>>>> exist
>>>> or
>>>> not. I offer it as a kind of condensed alternative to Matt
>>>> Barber's
>>>> approach that was posted awhile back (which I cannot find at the
>>>> moment).
>>>
>>> Whoa, this is pretty intense dynamic patching-fu. I'm really
>>> impressed!
>>> Thx for
>>> sharing.
>>
>> It is a nice hack. That reminds me, wasn't there a patch (as in a
>> diff of C
>> code) to add $# and $@ to Pd's object argument handling? That
>> would make
>> this stuff much easier...
> Yo,
> I naively had a go at fixing up IO's $#/$@ patch for 42-4 -
> removing the lines:
> if(msp+argc >= ems)
> {
> error("message stack overflow");
> goto broken;
> }
>
> as suggested by
> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/pd/src/m_binbuf.c?r1=8186&r2=9108
> seems to do the trick - I've got a cleanly built 42-4 with $@ $#
> expansion.
>
> Here's the modified patch, I'll put it in the patch tracker if there
> are no complaints.
> Best
> Luke
No reason to not submit it to the patch tracker. I guess I never
included this in Pd-extended before because I was nervous about
unforseen bugs. It sure would be nice to have some kind of automatic
regression testing...
.hc
>
>
>
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>> Chris.
>>>
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> <dollargcargv-pd-0.42-4.patch>
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