Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It would be great to have people start using this string/blob functionality, but it needs to be changed so that it'll work without patching Pd itself. IOhannes outlined this idea, and we talked about it briefly in the past.
This current implementation of the string patch will need to be removed from the next release of Pd-extended (and should have been removed from this release).
The core of the idea that IOhannes mentioned is just declaring an external type number and using that, rather than patching Pd.
It sounds like a good idea but I really don't understand how it can work. I would code it but I don't know what to code :( It seems to me that if a type is unknown to Pd it will not be processed. Last time it took me about two weeks to get the string patch to work, and I don't seem to have that kind of time any more, so maybe IOhannes, who knows how to do it, could give it a go?
Martin