[PD] settable receive again

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Cyrille Henry <ch at chnry.net>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>; "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 4:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] settable receive again
> 
> 
> hello,
> 
> Le 08/06/2012 00:43, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> 
>>  I've posted about it before.  Just imagine [s] inside abstraction [foo] 
> and
>>  [r] inside abstraction [bar].  I want to type [foo blah] and have my 
> abstraction
>>  set the inner [s] symbol to [parent-$0]-blah.  Easy enough. Similarly, I 
> want
>>  [bar blah] to set its inner [r] symbol to [parent-$0]-blah.  Roadblock.
>> 
> [s parent-$0-$1]
> [r parent-$0-$1]

That probably wasn't clear.  I don't want [symbol parent-$0-$1]; inside my 
abstractions I want the parent $0 prefixed to $1 as the symbol.  In other 
words, my abstractions make it so that I don't have to type "$0-" in every 
s/r pair where I want canvas locality which as I said is most of the cases 
by far.  (My abstractions do other stuff which I wrote about in the nonlocal 
scope thread, but that isn't important to this discussion.)

> 
> anyway, if you really in need for a settable send and a settable receive, you 
> can always use prepends and route that are both settable.
> see small attached abstraction.

I think you are stuck for two reasons
1) [r setable_send_receive] is global.  I want the parent $0 in front of it so that 
my abstraction symbols don't clash with other abstractions.
2) Your example filters messages in a way that s/r doesn't.  It's possible to hack
around this using three extra objects.  It is also possible to get the arguments of 
an abstraction in Pd Vanilla.  With the former, I'd rather send a single message to 
an inlet and be done.

-Jonathan

> 
> cheers
> c
>