--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette@gmail.com wrote:
From: Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PD] shouldn't message boxes work as gui elements? To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "PD list" pd-list@iem.at Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 8:53 PM Jonathan Wilkes escribió:
As for nonlocal send and receive on the current msg
box: you've already got a nonlocal send by starting the message box with a semicolon.
That's a different thing. It's not just a matter of being able or not being able to send a message to wherever, it is a matter of how the box behaves. As a user, would you be happy if you were filling a form and there was an input field with a label that says: "Please enter your name and surname, preceded by a semicolon, a newline, the word 'name' in all lower case without quotes, and a white space"?
The syntax you're talking about it extremely useful. Even though you can do the same thing with [send] by setting the send-name with the right inlet, that gets extremely cumbersome when, say, initializing a bunch of values and using dollar signs. The following is much easier: [; $1-pitch 60; $1-metro 96; $1-oscbank 32; $1-salad-bar optional (
I find the semicolon atom to be a real time (and space) saver here.
:)
Oops, I almost chopped off your smiley by accident. :)
-Jonathan