On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:

What's your setup routine for the external look like?

void tabPowSine_tilde_setup(void)
{
        // Initialize the class
        tabPowSine_class = class_new(gensym("tabPowSine~"), (t_newmethod)tabPowSine_new, (t_method)tabPowSine_free, sizeof(t_tabPowSine), 0, A_GIMME, 0);

        // Specify signal input, with automatic float to signal conversion
        CLASS_MAINSIGNALIN(tabPowSine_class, t_tabPowSine, x_f);

        // Bind the DSP method, which is called when the DACs are turned on
        class_addmethod(tabPowSine_class, (t_method)tabPowSine_dsp, gensym("dsp"), A_CANT, 0);

        // Print authorship to Pd window
        post("powSine~: Sinewave oscillator raised to a power\n external by Alexandros Drymonitis");
}

Lyon's book explaing what A_GIMME does, but not A_CANT. I checked m_pd.h a bit but didn't make much out of it. It is there where the problem lies?

-Jonathan

On Sunday, May 25, 2014 2:14 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm building an external (my very first one) and it's working as expected, only the arguments I type when I create it are not passed and the variables set to get values from these arguments are set to zero.

The new instance routine prototype is this:
void *tabPowSine_new(t_symbol *s, short argc, t_atom argv)

and in this routine I type the following two lines:
if(argc >= 1) { x->x_frequency = atom_getfloatarg(0, argc, argv); }

if(argc >= 2) { x->x_power = atom_getfloatarg(1, argc, argv); }

but if I create an object like this [tabPowSine~ 220 0.5], the variables x_frequency and x_power (declared in the object structure) won't get these values. As soon as I send a signal or float to the respective inlet, everything works fine.

Also, I get a warning when I type "make" in the terminal, to make the Pd object, which is:
tabPowSine~.c:60:32: warning: unused parameter 's' [-Wunused-parameter]

Can I just ommint the t_symbol *s?

I'm following Eric Lyon's book for writing externals, and he's passing this symbol pointer (it is a symbol pointer, right?) to the new instance routine...

Final question, so that I don't send three different emails, is it preferable to use a table lookup cosine oscillator than using the cos function in the perform routine? Is there significant difference in the CPU consumption?

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