On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Thinking about that I am not even sure if the possibility to send to /myabs/synths/fm/carrier directly is such a good thing, as it completely destroys encapsulation of abstractions. all /myabs messages should be handled by myabs and its subpatches.
Just to clarify this: In memento, I'm not using any global receivers at all (except one). So the "r /myabs/whatever] thing is not a part of Memento, and I agree, that this would be bad for encapsulation which is no problem in "single user" patches, but encapsulation is crucial for abstraction libraries.
All remote control from outside an abstraction is running through inlets, not receivers.
Ah, I see ...
Another problem is that a route with wildcards is not enough, what we would need additionally is a "receive" with wildcards.
I don't see, where a wildcard-receive would be necessary in this context?
Hmm, most likely I had a knot in my brain. I was thinking about the wildcard feature of OSC. A user who wants to have [receive]'s in the abstractions instead of passing through inlets. But then you would need the wildcards in [send]'s in order to access more than one receiver, not in the receive's.
Does this make more sense ?
Guenter
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