[PD] how can I clear [vd~]

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Tue, 2/1/11, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] how can I clear [vd~]
> To: "Ingo Scherzinger" <ingo at miamiwave.com>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 3:33 AM
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Ingo Scherzinger
> wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to clear the content of [vd~]?
> 
> You should ask your question like «Is it possible to clear
> the content of [delwrite~] ?» because that's where the
> sound is kept.
> 
> [vd~] and [delread~] are just read-heads that don't keep a
> copy of the sound.
> 
> [delwrite~] doesn't seem to have a clear feature. This
> could be added with a little bit of C code, but otherwise,
> there is a workaround : you temporarily set all of your
> read-heads to a blank portion of the buffer instead of where
> they're supposed to be. Yes it's ugly, and no, it doesn't
> always work. The clear feature would be a better idea.

Would the following do the same thing as a "clear" message?

[r del_period]
|
[delread~ foo]
|
|   [r clear]
|   |
|   [b]
|   |\   [r del_period]
|   |  \ |
|   [0(  [del]
|   |   /
|   | [1(
|   |/
[*~ 1]

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