Is there any way in Pd to find out how many inlets or outlets a named object has? This is one of my biggest annoyances in Max. I want to create a class of objects (class in the loose, non-OO sense) that all take input in the same range and can be patched together randomly to form a sort of tree of endless complexity. Doing so requires that I be able to find out how many inlets an object has, so I know how many things to script in to hook up to it. In Max, currently the only way to do it is to keep making objects and trying to hook them up, catching errors when they occur and then deleting the objects intended to be hooked up to the non-existant port: Obviously a pain, and quite slow as well, as Max doesn't perform terribly well when writing out errors to the Max window in rapid succession.
- John