----- Original Message -----
> From: Miller Puckette <
msp@ucsd.edu>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <
jancsika@yahoo.com>
> Cc: IOhannes m zmölnig <
zmoelnig@iem.at>; "
pd-list@iem.at" <
pd-list@iem.at>
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] variable receive objects?
>
> Hi all -
>
> If you make a settable 'receive' and then change the setting in a
> context
> in which a message is currently passing through the receive object (not
> at all an unlikely thing to have happen) it will crash Pd. There are ways
> around this but I don't know of any that would not slow down the global
> functioning of Pd itself.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:07:28AM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: IOhannes m zmölnig <
zmoelnig@iem.at>
>> > To:
pd-list@iem.at
>> > Cc:
>> > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 4:03 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [PD] variable receive objects?
>> >
>> > On 05/12/2012 07:58 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>
>> >>> From: Marian Weger<
mail@marianweger.com>
>> >>> To:
pd-list@iem.at
>> >>> Cc:
>> >>> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 8:09 AM
>> >>> Subject: Re: [PD] variable receive objects?
>> >>>
>> >>> hi!
>> >>>
>> >>>> is there a way to generate a variable receive object
> similar to a
>> > send via
>> >>> message box, whose source is defined at load time?
>> >>>
>> >>> use iem_receive / iem_r from iemlib.
>> >>
>> >> Wow, that is classic Pd development style-- add a tiny feature to
> an
>> >> object, but don't actually improve _that_ object.
>> >
>> > ever thought that there might be a good reason why [r] is not
> seettable,
>> > and that [iem_r] - while superficially working - exposes exactly the
>> > problems of a settable [r]?
>>
>> Enlighten me.
>>
>> >
>> > mfgadsr
>> > IOhannes
>> >
>> > PS: there should be a discussion on this topic in the archives.
>>
>> I don't find anything of the sort. Tried searching for "settable
> receive", "setting receive",
>> and "iem_receive"
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> >
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