There are a bunch of poly objects for Pd, I use nqpoly4 all the time,
then there is polypoly~ and others. I've certainly used patches with
500-1000 abstraction instances without problem, I guess I haven't
tried 4600.
.hc
On Nov 30, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Stephen Lucas wrote:
I'm experiencing some instability with a patch that is very large.
Basically, I have an abstraction that does some calculations between
a send and receive, whose names are controlled by the creation
arguments of the abstraction.I made a little patch to create 68x68 of these (yes, I really need
that many), and correctly place them on the canvas so that they
don't overlap graphically. As far as I can tell, they all created
fine and I even managed to save the patch. I did use a text editor
to manually increase the size of the canvas, since message based
object creation will not automatically resize the canvas if
something will be past the bounds of the canvas.I've been getting inconsistant problems (crashing) with what I can
only assume is an issue with a patch this large (4624 objects). If I
understand things correctly, these abstractions do not have any DSP
objects and should not be consuming large quantities of system
resources if they're just hanging around, waiting to be used. I
suspect the problem may mainly be linked to actually looking at the
patch, which I don't need to do, but I don't feel confident using a
patch that is always cheating death. If I don't look at the patch
and just load it as an abstraction in another patch, it seems much
more stable, but still takes a long time to create, delete, open, or
close.Has anyone else seen this problem and am I crazy for trying to do
this? In Max I probably would have tried to approach this using
poly~, but I don't know any objects in pd that have similar methods
of creating several instances of an abstraction. If this is simply a
problem of having a very large canvas, I could compartmentalize the
abstractions to solve that.Thanks to anyone who puts in their 2cents.
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