[PD] adding outlets to [inlet~] (was How can a signal inlet of an object know if it's receiving a signal)

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Ok, the thread was digressing, so I opened a new one... There's a
suggestion to add outlets to inlet~ in: https://github.com/pure-data/
pure-data/issues/259 One of the outlets would report if a signal is
connected or not (as discussed in the previous thread), the other would
route control messages.

I got this itch to try and make a Pull Request for it. First I tried to
make it as an external, but couldn't really do it. I tried copying the code
of inlet into a new external, without any changes, but I seem to have
failed miserably at it.

So I went ahead and started editing Pd's code to see what would happen and
if I could do a Pull Request. It was easier to do that, and I was
apparently on the right track. So I first added a new control outlet to
pass/route all control data fed into an [inlet~] object.

The problem now is that inlet~ still only accepts signals, and will print
an error like inlet: expected 'signal' but got 'bang' ... so now what? I
figure it'd be crazy to change Pd's code elsewhere, so I looked at it and I
assume that this is being set here.

static void *vinlet_newsig(t_symbol *s)

{

    t_vinlet *x = (t_vinlet *)pd_new(vinlet_class);

    x->x_canvas = canvas_getcurrent();

    x->x_inlet = canvas_addinlet(x->x_canvas, &x->x_obj.ob_pd, &s_signal);

Am I right? So I ask, how can I make this external accept ANY kind of
message, not just signals?

thanks

2018-03-07 16:24 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

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> 2018-03-07 15:42 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:
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>> by the way, here's an issue on github
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>> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/259
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> which had been posted on this thread already, haha, sorry
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