[PD] outputting arbitrary size list

[Martin Peach via Pd-list]

slipdec accumulates floats until end of packet then outputs the list:
http://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/externals/mrpeach/slipdec/

Martin

On 2014-06-05 14:11, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> Hi list,
>       I'm looking for an example interface that I cannot find atm-- how
> to accumulate an arbitrary-length list and output it from a Pd object
> written in C.  I can think of several ways to do it but if there's
> already something that exists I'd rather just hook into that.
>
> I want to add a few messages to [canvasinfo] to return a list of
> matching object indices on the canvas.  So I need to be able to iterate
> through all the objects in the canvas, add them to a list if they match,
> then output that list.
>
> Any externals out there that would contain a decent model for doing
> this?  I looked at the code for [list append] but that only glues
> together two lists, where I may be adding a large number of float atoms
> for a single output.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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