On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Olaf Matthes wrote:

Mathieu Bouchard schrieb:

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another question: is it still true that a non-left inlet may only define a single method? is there some kind of workaround for that?

Yes and yes. You can't do it the 'normal' way, but Thomas Grill recently showed me how to create a 'proxy inlet'. You could have a look at the sources

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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Thomas Grill wrote:

Hi Mathieu, It's only a sketch, actually fragments from flext code. good luck, Thomas

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As stated before, you need proxy objects which (actually their method) receive the messages for the non-left inlets.

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Thanks to both of you. I have created proxy objects and they work. GridFlow 0.6.2 will include the Ruby<->PureData bridge I've written. However it crashes after a while due to memory corruption, which I don't have while running with the other bridge or running standalone.

Also I don't know how to correctly tell to PureData that the object should be greyed out and disabled. What I do in the Ruby/C++ part is I raise an exception in the constructor. I catch that exception in the bridge and I call pd_error()... that leaves a gui object with 1 inlet and 0 outlets, invariably, and if i send a bang in that outlet, i get:

error: ruby NoMethodError: undefined method `_0_bang' for false

where 'false' is Ruby's interpretation of a null pointer.

in jMax, calling fts_object_set_error() is sufficient to grey out an object.

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