[PD] namecanvas obsolete? Why? Re: Dynamic Graph on Parent

[brandon zeeb]

Sorry, that last example should read:
[clear(
|
|
[s $!]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:42 PM, brandon zeeb <zeeb.brandon at gmail.com>wrote:

> In my happy world, one could perform the following:
>
> [coords 0 -1 1 1 80 90 1 100 100;(
> |
> |
> [s $!]
>
> With the example above, one could perform canvas operations on the current
> canvas, ie: "this".  So to answer your question, $! would be the equivalent
> to whatever name you supplied in [namecanvas], so it's type would be that of
> the canvas, an object type.
>
> Therefore, if you attempted the following, no error should occur (again, in
> my happy world)
>
> [clear(
> |
> |
> [s $1]
>
> Miller?
>
> Cheers,
> ~Brandon
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, brandon zeeb wrote:
>>
>>  If Miller wants to remove [namecanvas], just give us a "this" expression!
>>>  What about $! ?
>>>
>>
>> What would be the type of $! ?
>>
>> I don't think that there is any atom-type for supporting the feature that
>> you suggest.
>>
>> see also http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2006-02/035454.html
>>
>>
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>> | Mathieu Bouchard ------------------------------ Villeray, Montréal, QC
>>
>
>
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