[PD] List Message Queueing? ( Note on/off messages into vst~ )

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, saint wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to send an object (or an external) a bunch of list 
> messages and for that object to then store them and output them at 2ms 
> intervals in a sort of a queue.

if the messages are all of a fixed length and all made of floats, you 
could look into using several [pipe] at once.

But if ever you need your messages to be more free-form (variable length, 
mixed symbols) you may enjoy [textfile] even though you won't be writing 
to files, reading from files, converting to text, or from text. It's a 
misnomer really.

And because you can't delete the queue items that you are done with 
([textfile] only supports deleting the whole contents), then I suppose 
it'd be better if you use a few counters, and use a second [textfile] so 
that once in a while, one of the [textfile]s only contains obsolete data, 
so that you can clear it, so that you don't make a memory-leak.

Using externals instead of internals, you could use a single [coll], that 
can delete single elements. In that case you save yourself the trouble of 
double-buffering, but afaik you still have to use counters.

if you want something even more automatic, I haven't looked into 
Holzmann's containers, but I assume that they offer a lot more than either 
[textfile] or [coll].

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