[PD] in an abstraction or subpatch, what determines the order of inlets/outlets?

[Richie Cyngler]

Correct me if I'm wrong but this doesn't work for me. They stay in order of
creation, the abstraction object doesn't change when I move the horizontal
alignment of the inlets in the subpatch.

As seen here:

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

> doc/2.control.examples/12.PART2.subpatch.pd (inside [pd eager-adder])
>
> Also in:
> http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/x2.htm#s7
>
> Trivia:
> If you put a bunch of [inlet] objects at the exact same x position in a
> canvas, the order in
> which they were created (from most recent to least recent) corresponds to
> the left-to-right
> order of the subpatch's inlets on the parent patch.  In other words: if you
> have:
> [inlet]
> [inlet]
>
> There's no way to tell by looking what the ordering is.  So, obviously,
> don't do that, but
> also keep in mind that it's a good idea in general to keep all [inlet]
> objects in a horizontal row so one can quickly grasp their left-to-right
> order merely by looking at the patch:
>
> [inlet]     [inlet]
>
> is much clearer than:
>
> [inlet] [inlet]
>  [inlet]
>
> (Same for [outlet].)
>
> -Jonathan
>
> --- On *Mon, 2/14/11, Morgan Packard <morgan at morganpackard.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Morgan Packard <morgan at morganpackard.com>
> Subject: [PD] in an abstraction or subpatch, what determines the order of
> inlets/outlets?
> To: "pd list" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 10:32 PM
>
>
> In other words, when I edit my subpatch, how can I tell which
> inlets/outlets in the subpatch correspond to which in box in the main patch
> representing the subpatch?
>
> I'm sure this is a common question, but a quick glance through the docs and
> on google didn't turn anything up.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Morgan
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-- 
shiny

Rich
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