12 Jul
2009
12 Jul
'09
10:17 p.m.
Hi, I'm revising the helpfiles, and I noticed some weird behavior while looking at pointer-help.pd:
Hook up a [get template1 y] to the first pointer example.
Traverse and click "next" to the end of the list.
Get happily outputs the y field for template2 without error.
Which makes me wonder- why must template names be given as arguments to get/set/setsize/getsize? Template names in [pointer] already give you traffic control.
It would be a lot handier if you could just specify a field, and leave it up to the user to provide pointers to ds instances that have that field. Bonus: you could have a bunch of different ds's in a window, and poll all x and y coordinates with a single [get].
-Jonathan