[PD] Data structures - delete specific scalar?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Sat, 2018-05-19 at 00:02 +0200, Ingo Stock wrote:
> to my knowledge it is not possible to delete a single scalar.

Thanks for the confirmation. I'm also wondering whether this will
always be like this or if it would be a trivial feature to add.

> The method
> to get rid of a scalar is to clear the subpatch and recreate
> everything.

Yeah. It's not very elegant and gets expensive pretty quickly. I was
wondering about alternative strategies, like moving non-used scalars
out-of-the-way and later re-use them. It's cumbersome to implement, but
probably less drastic than the clear-all-and-rebuild method. My goal is
to build GUIs with ds that are fully functional without requiring
switching into edit mode. I'd be interested in hearing about similar
success (or failure) stories.

Roman



On 05/18/2018 11:36 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > Hey all
> > 
> > Following up a thread from 2011:
> > https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2011-04/088306.html
> > 
> > I would like to know whether it is impossible to delete a specific
> > scalar, by pointer. If so, why is that? Does it use a design that
> > makes
> > it difficult to allow this? To my untrained eye there is no
> > apparent
> > reason why it is possible by editing the GUI graphically/manually,
> > but
> > not per message.
> > 
> > Roman
> > 
> > 
> > 
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