it's definitely a feature, and it's (i think) exactly what olaf is looking for.
it was documented officially for the number box somewhere. and i guess since then it's just been implied. lots of objects take set messages.
maybe my example doesn't explain it well, and makes it sound like a bug, but the semantics are quite sane.
pix.
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:49:23 -0500 David McCallum 8dngm@qlink.queensu.ca wrote:
Oh... Is that a bug or a feature?
At 02:30 AM 16/03/2003 +0100, pix wrote:
to elucidate:
if you send a "set <value>" message to a slider (or a number box, for that matter), the value is changed without sending the value out on the output.
so, for instance, if you do:
number box -> [set $1 ( -> vsl -> number box
then changing the first number box will move the slider, whereas only dragging on the slider itself will affect the second number box.
pix.
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