[PD] Inconsistent creation in some objects

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Nov 19 00:23:36 CET 2009


On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> no. instead you should make instantiation errors findable:
> Sounds like a useful patch, is it in the patch tracker?

no.

> I think there is a reason to do both.  So if the object doesn't create, it 
> should throw the error like in this patch.  But like IOhannes talked about, 
> something like [netrecieve].  Currently, if there is a port conflict, it just 
> doesn't create.  Instead it should create, and throw a pd_error() that 
> explains the port conflict.  So both are very useful.

It is not useful to have this feature if the port number does not come out 
by an outlet, because then, the programme that does [netsend] cannot know 
where to connect to.

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