Patches item #1826144, was opened at 2007-11-05 07:41 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by millerpuckette You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478072&aid=1826144...

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Status: Closed Resolution: Accepted

Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: IOhannes m zmlnig (zmoelnig) Assigned to: Miller Puckette (millerpuckette) Summary: accept atoms as lists on righthand inlets

Initial Comment: when an object has a list-method on its left inlet, it will happily accept floats and symbols as well (and handle them as 1-atom lists), if no specific method for these types is defined.

however, this is not true for right-hand inlets.

if such an inlet (with a "list" method, as declared with receives a single float number (as output by the numberbox), it bails out with "error: inlet: expected 'list' but got 'float'"

this is especially sad, as there is no way to add methods for several types of messages to a right-hand inlet (well, there are methods like using proxys; but we don't want to go into that)

a workaround for this is to run the message through [list] (or [list $1(), however i would rather not use this.

instead, the attached patch fixes this by modifying the inlet_* methods in m_obj.c to fallback to inlet_list() if all else fails.

btw, this is the code i use to add a list-method to the 2nd outlet:

new{ ... inlet_new(&x->x_obj, &x->x_obj.ob_pd, &s_list, gensym("list2")); } setup{ ... class_addmethod(myobj_class, (t_method)myobj_list2, gensym("list2"), A_GIMME, 0); })

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2007-11-05 08:58

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Sounds very useful, but I am sure there have got to be some unwanted ramifications. Do you have any idea what they might be?

Is this ready to be included in 0.40.3-extended ?

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