Hallo, João Miguel Pais hat gesagt: // João Miguel Pais wrote:
I'm working on a struct where I use the variable aa to calculate
something, and the variable bb [bb == aa - 1] to display it (due to screen
display). If I edit one of them with mouse-dragging is there a way to
update the other one directly, besides building a get aa -> set bb circuit
on the side (which has to be constantly triggered with a metro)?I can't remember anything. I think it would be good to have also these
internal math applications on data-s, and / or a way to make some
variables dynamically (and directly) linked with each other, so that they
can be updated with no delays or other kind of external triggering (this
is actually connected with my request a few days ago about a mouse-click
detector for data-s. I think it would be a great improvement in terms of
usability).
I don't think, blowing up the data structures with many more functions (one could think of more than just math) is a practical approach, as in the end it would mean to build a kind of second Pd inside Pd's data structures.
As I see it, this is another case where some way to detect changes of data in a ds-instance would help a great deal. There already is the starting for this available with the [struct] object's outlet, that sends a pointer, if an instance is selected in Edit mode. One could do all math or list or symbol processing that Pd is capable of with this pointer using normal Pd objects.
However there still is no way to detect a change outside of edit mode and no way to detect changes through other means (though these originate somewhere in Pd anyways and thus they can be intercepted from there.)
Ciao
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