You can still send the set message directly to the inlet of the numberbox2 or slider and it won't effect the other.  See patch. 

2010/1/16 Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>


--- On Sat, 1/16/10, IOhannes zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:

> From: IOhannes zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] 'synced' number and slider
> To: "Lorenzo" <lsutton@libero.it>
> Cc: pd-list@iem.at
> Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 11:36 AM
> Lorenzo wrote:
> > This seems trivial but I've never managed to figure
> out how to do it in
> > a non-trivial way:
> >
> > Have a number (atom) and a slider (be it horizontal or
> vertical) which
> > are 'synced', that is if one changes the number the
> slider changes and
> > vice-versa.
>
>
> if you use numberbox2 as the numberbox, you can give both
> the nbx and
> the slider the same send/receive names
> (that is:
> numberbox2.sendname=numberbox2.receivename=slider.sendname=slider.receivename)
>
> and they will be magically linked to each other.
>
> to use the value in the patch add another receiver
> [r <samereceivename>]
>

Except if you need to send a value to the inlet of the numbox2 or the slider.  Then this method magically doesn't work, whereas the [set $1(
idiom does.

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> IOhannes
>
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