[PD] [table] update notification

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2012 8:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] [table] update notification
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> On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:15 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  Pd-l2ork has a feature where you can [r "arrayname_changed"]
>> 
>>  and you'll get a bang when the array is modified with the mouse.  
> 
> That's nice feature of Pd-l2ork.
> 
> 
>>  If you want a notification when using tabwrite/etc., well, when those 
>> 
>>  objects receive a message to update the array, just manually send 
>> 
>>  a bang to "arrayname_changed" when this happens.
> 
> Yeah, you're totally right. If I'd build a self-enclosed patch, this
> wouldn't be an issue. The goal here is to create an abstraction able to
> keep an instance of a table in sync over network. I would like to avoid
> to design it in a way, that forces the user of the abstraction to
> actively notify it about changes. And since I also want to track manual
> edits, I need some kind of a watchdog anyway. So  I still go for the
> watchdog solution, until the Pd-l2ork features make into Pd.

Can you guarantee that [tabsend~] will never be sending to that array?

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> Roman
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