[PD] variable receive objects?

[John Harrison]

I thought [send13] and [receive13] from the ext13 library were for settable
send and receive? Or am I misunderstanding the question?

I've used those 2 objects a lot and thought they seemed pretty stable...

-John

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Does anyone have a demo crasher, with iem_receive, [r~], or of any of the
> iemguis (which of course have settable receives as well)?
>
> It's not immediately apparent how to change a receive symbol while a
> message is "currently passing through the receive object".  I though Pd was
> supposed to be deterministic.
>
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>
> > To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>; "pd-list at iem.at" <
> pd-list at iem.at>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 11:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PD] variable receive objects?
> >
> > Hi all -
> >
> > If you make a settable 'receive' and then change the setting in a
> > context
> > in which a message is currently passing through the receive object (not
> > at all an unlikely thing to have happen) it will crash Pd.  There are
> ways
> > around this but I don't know of any that would not slow down the global
> > functioning of Pd itself.
> >
> > cheers
> > Miller
> >
> > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:07:28AM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>  > From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> >>  > To: pd-list at iem.at
> >>  > Cc:
> >>  > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 4:03 AM
> >>  > Subject: Re: [PD] variable receive objects?
> >>  >
> >>  > On 05/12/2012 07:58 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >>  >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>  >>
> >>  >>>  From: Marian Weger<mail at marianweger.com>
> >>  >>>  To: pd-list at iem.at
> >>  >>>  Cc:
> >>  >>>  Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 8:09 AM
> >>  >>>  Subject: Re: [PD] variable receive objects?
> >>  >>>
> >>  >>>  hi!
> >>  >>>
> >>  >>>>    is there a way to generate a variable receive object
> > similar to a
> >>  > send via
> >>  >>>  message box, whose source is defined at load time?
> >>  >>>
> >>  >>>  use iem_receive / iem_r from iemlib.
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  Wow, that is classic Pd development style-- add a tiny feature to
> > an
> >>  >>  object, but don't actually improve _that_ object.
> >>  >
> >>  > ever thought that there might be a good reason why [r] is not
> > seettable,
> >>  > and that [iem_r] - while superficially working - exposes exactly the
> >>  > problems of a settable [r]?
> >>
> >>  Enlighten me.
> >>
> >>  >
> >>  > mfgadsr
> >>  > IOhannes
> >>  >
> >>  > PS: there should be a discussion on this topic in the archives.
> >>
> >>  I don't find anything of the sort.  Tried searching for "settable
> > receive", "setting receive",
> >>  and "iem_receive"
> >>
> >>  -Jonathan
> >>
> >>  >
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