I do not see how I could have more than one buffer at the same time if it were declared statically.  The data has to be 'findable', so I need some way to name it.  pd_findbyclass() seems to be the right tool for this, though I am still trying to figure out how to create the t_class that will have the sms data. 

I think, after looking into the various possibilities, outputting a pointer to the data would just be confusing and might not work when sent through pd's messaging system.  It appears that keeping the buffer by a symbol name would be cleaner. 

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Thomas Grill <gr@grrrr.org> wrote:

Data sharing in pool is no flext-specific feature... you can do that with any external by making the shared data "static" (in c-style9, as opposed to be allocated with the object instances.
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How do you manage to keep multiple pool's then?

regards,
Richie