Here's a way to do the same thing without any arguments for ctlin. ctlbox.pd is the shell, ctlabst.pd is what is doing the work. As far as I can tell it does exactly what you were looking for.
If you are going to create a whole bunch of abstractions or objects with different arguments, may I suggest you:
- Put one abstraction/object down
- Highlight it
- Press Ctl-D to duplicate it as many times as you need
- Move the clones wherever you need them to be able to see
- Save and open the patch in a text editor and change the arguments
that way, where they are all listed one after another. Less clicking that way.
You should be able to see what I'm talking about if you don't know. It's a good thing to understand if you want to be effective with Pd. But I think the abstraction I attached does it too.
-Chuckk
On 7/29/06, AshK ashk@azylum.net wrote:
I forgot one thing, in my patch ctlin.pd with the [+] object the bang is not necessary, it even adds some wrong numbers, I just swaped the the incoming parameters and it makes what I want but a dedicated inlet for the bang would be more user friendly... to me. But I give up trying to create the dynamic stuff, it is way too complicated for me to add a simple variable to an object, I'll do the math myself as you suggested Derek, it's going to take a long time but not as long as what I spent today on this stuff. And doing a long and repetitive task by hand is not really what I thought pd was about.
thanks for your help