[PD] Nonlocal shared symbol ?

[Jack]

Hello Jérôme,

Did you try to use a server with that value. And then use clients in
your patches/abstractions to query this value to the server at startup ?
I could be a possibility...
++

Jack



Le 06/01/2017 à 16:05, Jérôme Abel a écrit :
>> a [text] (and get its first line from your abs)
> 
> Inside the main patch, I use [text] to read constant values from a
> textfile. Then I could store them in containers like [symbol], [float],
> [list] in each abstractions but it seems (for me) not flexible. It does
> not allow to open a patch or an abstraction which needs thoses values. I
> can reload the textfile when the patch is opened but I don't like this
> design : when I reload the textfile I trigger values into the 2 patches.
> 
> My way now is a [text] loader of the same textfile into my main patches,
> called once at the startup.
> 
> The [pv] object from cyclone is a good choice, thanks for the tip. It
> just needs to be created in a parent level.
> 
>> But if you only have to get its constant value (and not to modify it)
>> then
>> you could just call a shared abstraction in your abs, that would just
>> send
>> the symbol to an outlet?
> 
> Do you mean one [text] loader into each abstractions ?
>