23 Mar
2008
23 Mar
'08
11:53 a.m.
Hallo, best boy hat gesagt: // best boy wrote:
is there a way to keep track of the number of opened instances of an external? if so, can anyone point me to an example object?
You could wrap it inside an abstraction which has a running counter stored in a [value MYOBJECTCOUNT] object. "MYOBJECTCOUNT" should be unique. The counter then gets incremented with each new instance of your abstraction. You cannot delete objects though without the counter getting out of sync unless you use a Pd with [closebang] or so.
For various obvious reasons, this is not a very good general solution, though.
Ciao
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