IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Martin Peach wrote:
make [pipelist] accept lists without the list selector (aka meta-messages) then.
i agree.
OK, the latest [pipelist] in svn pipes lists as well as meta-messages.
the problem with this is that the object behaves "weird" if it is also meant to have "special" messages.
e.g. [pipelist] had a special message "clear" (or so). now what happens if it pipes just _any_ message: will "clear" be piped or will it clear the buffer?
It has 'clear' and 'flush'. I suppose (without trying it right now) that those two will be interpreted as messages to pipelist, since the 'anything' method is called as a last resort by Pd when no method matches the selector. Perhaps renaming them to 'clearpipe' and 'flushpipe' would reduce the possibility of confusion; it's unlikely that anyone would want to send those two messages for any other reason, except to be perverse, like sending a clear message to a second pipelist...
whatever you chose, people will complain.
i was a bit hasty when i shouted "i agree"....
(the other, more clumsy solution was of course to use [list]->[pipelist]->[list trim])
Well now it handles lists as well as meta-messages, so you could do that as well, and send 'list clear' if you don't want 'clear' to be interpreted.
Martin