[PD] [table] update notification

[Roman Haefeli]

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 09:38 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
> > To: pd-list <pd-list at iem.at>
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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.  
> > 
> > That's nice feature of Pd-l2ork.
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> >>  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.
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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?

Good point. The abstraction is actually designed and optimized to cover
sporadic changes in parts of an array. It cannot and should not be used
to transmit full audio streams over network. I put some arbitrary
limits: Detection for changes occurs only every 100ms, the maximum size
of the table to be synchronized is 2048 elements.

Roman