I'm not sure I understood Steffen's proposed solution, and I'm not sure whether I explained clearly what was my goal.
However, I've come up with an interesting solution (attached), which satisfies my requirements except one that is however sacrifiable.
Here's what I needed.
- Somewhere there is a [r xxx] that does something important, such as
playing a sound 2) The name "xxx" is "publicly known", that is, wherever I need to play that sound under any circumstances in any part of my patch, I can trust that I can send a bang to "xxx" -- e.g. [; xxx bang( -- and that will result in the sound being played once. 3) Somewhere in the patch I want to place ONE OR MORE [bng] objects, with their "send symbol" and "receive symbol" (in the bng properties) set to "xxx-if-send" and "xxx-if-receive" respectively (or any other convention such that the send and received symbols can be deduced from the control name "xxx") 4) Every time that you click _any_ of the [bng]s, one and only one bang is sent to "xxx". 5) Every time that a bang is sent to "xxx" from any source other than the gui [bng]s, _all_ the [bng]s flash 6) Every time that you click any of the [bng]s, all other [bng]s visually flash as well. 7) Somewhere there's an instance (or as many instances as needed, depending on how it works) of an abstraction with "xxx" as an argument, that make everything work as described. b) Obviously, you can repeat all this with any other control name.
Now, the attached example works as described except for point (6): when you click one bng, the message is sent to the target but the other bngs don't flash; however I'm quite fine with that. When a bang is sent from an "external" source, the [bng]s do bang.
Look at the attached patch "example_control_bang.pd", which uses the [control_bang] abstraction.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Bye m.
2008/3/18, Steffen Leve Poulsen slagmark@worldonline.dk:
matteo sisti sette skrev:
Hi,
Is there a way to make a [bng] visually "flash" (the same it does when you click it or send it a bang) WITHOUT making it output/send a bang?
Hi, Mattteo
you can use:
[t a b] | | | [visual bang here] [route bang]
mvh/ slp