--- On Sun, 1/17/10, zmoelnig@iem.at zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
From: zmoelnig@iem.at zmoelnig@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] 'synced' number and slider To: pd-list@iem.at Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 8:20 PM Quoting "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com:
I don't think writing a self-documenting patch and the
use of iem gui
objects are mutually exclusive; after all, I use iem
guis in the example
patch you are referring to.
It's just that for the particular behavior of linking
two iem guis, I
wouldn't rely on whatever it is that happens when you
make all the
send/receive names the same. Instead, I would
use something like the
"explicitly patched" version and shove it all in a
gop. Then if you
decide after many months that you want to send a value
to one of the iem
guis, for example, and have all the linked iem guis
update their values,
it will work (and you can easily check for bugs by
opening the gop
window). If you try the same thing with the
send/receive name trick,
it will fail, and if you're like me and have a hard
time reading the
source code, then there's (currently) no quick way to
figure out why it
doesn't work because it's not documented in the help
patches for the
iem guis.
the send/receive "magic" in the iemguis are explicitely designed to allow the same send/receive names in order to sync several different objects.
So is it a bug that sending input to the inlet of one GUI doesn't set the value for all other GUI's with the same send/receive name?
-Jonathan
of course you can do this explicitely. iemguis just help to make this simpler..
mfgasdr IOhannes
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