[PD] Data structures and click event

[Pierre Massat]

Nevermind, it's working the way I expected, the y value was being output
and I thought that was the pointer's id.

Cheers,

Pierre.


2014-03-05 11:24 GMT+01:00 Pierre Massat <pimassat at gmail.com>:

> Dear list,
>
> First of all i'd like to say that i'm very impressed by the potential of
> data structures in Pd. I've always kind of ignored this feature and it's a
> pity because it's really worth diving into it.
> That being said I think that help and example patches are far from
> sufficient for beginners, and if it wasn't for Chris McCormick's
> s-abstractions I would have been able to really figure out how to use them
> (stuff like how to make an entire polygon draggable, how to use GOP with
> proper scaling, etc.).
>
> I m now stuck with a question. How can I identify the element which was
> just clicked ? I know that [struc] outputs the events, like click,
> selection and change, but I thought I could identify individual elements by
> their pointer id. It turns out that I get the same pointer for every
> element, although I created them sequentially (using [append]).
>
> (I guess something must be escaping me about pointers... I've noticed that
> within the same template, I get different pointers for elements on
> different y-levels, but the same pointer for all the element on the same
> y-level regardless of their x.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pierre
>
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