[PD] [table] update notification

[William Brent]

If you're open to using externals, [tabletool] has a "change" method
that scans the memory of a table and reports any changed values and
their indices out the two outlets.

http://williambrent.conflations.com/pages/research.html#tabletool


On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 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"]
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>>>  and you'll get a bang when the array is modified with the mouse.
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>> That's nice feature of Pd-l2ork.
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>>>  If you want a notification when using tabwrite/etc., well, when those
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>>>  objects receive a message to update the array, just manually send
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>>>  a bang to "arrayname_changed" when this happens.
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>> 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.
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> Can you guarantee that [tabsend~] will never be sending to that array?
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>> Roman
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