On 28/01/2022 08:53, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
it's of course always nicer to be vanilla only. i suggested zexy mainly because you were *already* using an external
that is true, though i try to use as few externals as possible, and i had already to use something to invoke commands. i have switched to [command] and it works fine (except for numeric values being converted to floats and coming out of the left outlet (!?), but adding a (non numeric) character to the output helped.)
but if you do want a vanilla solution for setting initial values, i'd go the other way round: create a script that invokes Pd, providing whatever unique values you need.
that is a good idea! maybe i'll add some system info to my pd-startup script. though i have to think of some kind of fallback, in case pd is not invoked from this script...
bis denn! martin