On Nov 16, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I didn't think of changing the behavior by using different wrappers, that makes sense. I guess with nqpoly4 vs polypoly the main difference in the wrapper. I think there are a couple advantages to not using a wrapper:
- makes it easier and more transparent to find instances when
debugging, [$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9] is a strange construct to see
Yep, that's true, but OTOH a wrapper is just a Pd patch, which is much easier to change than a dynamic patching construct. That has to be taken into account when it comes to longer-term maintainability. Generally less dynamic patching is better.
I used to think that, but some recent improvements have made dynamic patching much easier. First, your idea of using a subpatch and send/ receives is super helpful. Also, the settable send makes things much easier to follow. Building on your work, I think I've managed to get these polys to be pretty simple and straightforward. They could even fit all on one patch without subpatches.
- it should make it much easier to make the *poly objectclass behave
like a normal objectclass, with one file being in extra, but usable anywhere. This would require [ggee/getdir], but it should be pretty straightforward from there.
You mean getdir for finding the objects to instantiate? Maybe you can elaborate this a bit... The big problem of all *polys so far is that it's hard for them to finde the objects to instantiate. At first I had hoped that your solution of omitting the wrapper would be an easy fix, but in my tests it showed the same issue.
Yes, I am thinking of using [getdir] to get the path of the parent patch, then adding that path to the *poly's subpatch using [declare].
.hc
I am not a fan of huge routes, unless they are being dynamically generated. It makes some really nice line drawings when you have 30 or more instances :)
Yep, it looks really cool. ;)
Is there any real difference in efficiency between one big route and many small ones?
I don't think so. I'd guess that small ones are a tiny bit less efficient because of the additional inlets, but I wouldn't care about this.
Ciao
Frank
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