[PD] Inlet - Unexpected Behaviour

Christof Ressi info at christofressi.com
Thu Aug 6 20:52:12 CEST 2020


> I am asking whether the string "fwd" in a message has a
> special meaning to inlet.
You have hit a bug! "fwd" is internally used by signal inlets to forward 
messages to the (new) second outlet, but it accidentally broke "fwd" 
messages for non-signal inlets. I've just pushed a fix to the develop 
branch.

Christof

On 06.08.2020 19:31, matthew brandi wrote:
> Dear people
>
> In my role as village idiot, I am asking whether the string "fwd" in a message has a
> special meaning to inlet.
>
> Naively, I was expecting inlet to pass the string to the subpatch, but it seems not
> to. See example patch attached.
>
> Outlet behaves as I was expecting and inlet will pass "symbol fwd".
>
> Clearly, I have failed to grasp something simple, but what?
>
> In case this is version specific behaviour, I am using Pd 0.51.0 on Linux.
>
> All the best
>
> m
>
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