Hey Christof and dev list,

Christof,

I think it was you that did the work that allowed for a default value for unconnected [inlet~] in the inlet_features branch that didn't get merged?

I'm wondering, is there a way to do that with externals as is without modifying the pure data source? Either that or a way to detect connectivity?

I want to provide some audio rate controls to an external I'm writing but not *require* them for operation. 0 isn't a good default for some of these (amp or frequency multiplication).

If its not possible to provide defaults or detect connectivity (so i can provide my own defaults) I'll probably just provide optional creation args to opt in to these audio rate parameters.. but that just ends up being a lot more work so I figured I'd ask first :)

Thanks,

Alex