[PD] question about get/set/setsize

[Miller Puckette]

The idea was originally so that the 'get', etc, objects could look up the
field offset and type in advance to be more efficient.  I've never implemented
that though.

AND I do want to make an out so that you don't have to specify it, anyway.

cheers
Miller
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 01:17:58PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>      I'm revising the helpfiles, and I noticed some weird behavior while 
> looking at pointer-help.pd:
> 1. Hook up a [get template1 y] to the first pointer example.
> 2. Traverse and click "next" to the end of the list.
> 
> 3. Get happily outputs the y field for template2 without error.
> 
> Which makes me wonder- why must template names be given as arguments 
> to get/set/setsize/getsize? Template names in [pointer] already give you 
> traffic control.
> 
> It would be a lot handier if you could just specify a field, and leave it 
> up to the user to provide pointers to ds instances that have that field. 
> Bonus: you could have a bunch of different ds's in a window, and poll all 
> x and y coordinates with a single [get].
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> 
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