Hi Gerard,
BTW dyn~ is very nice, but doesn't seem to work with GEM for some reason.
Hmmm, it works for me... can you send me a simple demonstration patch?
The original idea was that you can make an abstraction to act (for instance) like pack but will all inlets active. Hiding a bunch of [t b a]'s inside. And that it would be nice if you can make a single abstraction like this with a variable number of inlets, so that you don't have to make a seperate one for each case.
Can this be done at all?
one way would be to use py/pyext
# Python script: pak.py
import pyext
class pak(pyext._class): def __init__(self,n): # n should be type-checked self._inlets = n self._outlets = 1 # initialize list self.lst = [0 for x in range(n)]
def _anything_(self,n,args):
# args should be type-checked!
self.lst[n-1] = args
self._outlet(1,self.lst)
PD patch:
#N canvas 463 293 278 228 12; #X obj 17 32 nbx 5 14 -1e+037 1e+037 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 18 256; #X obj 34 52 nbx 5 14 -1e+037 1e+037 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 11 256; #X obj 56 68 nbx 5 14 -1e+037 1e+037 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 13 256; #X obj 68 88 nbx 5 14 -1e+037 1e+037 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 21 256; #X obj 118 29 nbx 5 14 -1e+037 1e+037 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 13 256; #X obj 135 49 nbx 5 14 -1e+037 1e+037 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 13 256; #X obj 157 65 nbx 5 14 -1e+037 1e+037 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 10 256; #X obj 169 85 nbx 5 14 -1e+037 1e+037 0 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 11 256; #X obj 36 168 print; #X obj 37 129 pyx pak pak 8; #X connect 0 0 9 1; #X connect 1 0 9 2; #X connect 2 0 9 3; #X connect 3 0 9 4; #X connect 4 0 9 5; #X connect 5 0 9 6; #X connect 6 0 9 7; #X connect 7 0 9 8; #X connect 9 0 8 0;
best greetings, Thomas