Jamie Bullock wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 13:47 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Yeah, I think there should be more querying capabilities in Pd in general. It allows for more dynamic behavior without resorting to strange hacks.
you mean, strange hacks like storing a value in a variable?
anyhow, i agree that [tgl] is "special" (in a not very positive way) as it is the only gui-object (i can think of right now) that will change it's value when banged, rather than just output the current value.
... which was the exact reason I submitted the patch, but maybe the 'correct' patch would be to 'fix' the behaviour of [tgl] and make it output its current state on bang. I guess that's going to break (a lot of) stuff though...
yes totally. i wouldn't dare to change this.
another clue: when tgl gets banged, you will now it's new value. since tgl can basically only have 2 different values, it's rather trivial to calculate the original value from that. (but i guess that this is what hans meant with "strange hacks")
fgmadsr IOhannes