somehow i think that when you say "external", you really mean "subpatch" or possibly "abstraction".
Ya, your proabably right. I am not really fimilar with the vocabulary I guess. Thanks!
I did some tests with switch~ and indeed you are right. It would be useless to have such an object that can only be turned off in retrospect.
Still no word on gop on and off via an object? What about a global message like the dsp message?
$0-object gop off
Hurrah for PD! -thewade