[PD] Splitting Objects

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Oct 11 17:56:08 CEST 2012


On 09/25/2012 09:18 AM, Funs Seelen wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Thomas Mayer <thomas at residuum.org> wrote:
>> Is there any pitfall to that approach? One thing I need to take care for
>> are creation arguments. Anything else I need to consider?
>>
> 
> Speaking about creation arguments: if none are given for abstractions
> the default value is always "0" (at least I never figured out a way to
> give another default value *). For C-objects it is possible to use any
> float value as default.
> 
> --Funs
> 
> *) doing it this way the float object contains nothing, i.e. a zero,
> if no creation arguments are passed:
> 
> [loadbang]
> |
> [f $1]

Look at purepd/float_argument, purepd/any_argument, and
purepd/symbol_argument if you want to have more control over defaults
for abstractions.

I think iemguts also has some stuff there.

.hc




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