If you turn off a render chain, then no rendering occurs at all down the chain (ie, the gemhead returns immediately on the render call instead of running the chain).
If you have textures, etc. then they are still occupying RAM, but they are likely to be paged out very quickly.
Later, Mark
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-----Original Message----- From: rat@telecoma.net [mailto:rat@telecoma.net] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:30 AM To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: [PD] open menuclose abstraction + GEM
hi,
thx damien for the super pd-msg doku, it hepled me a lot. i was playing around with the open msg to open an abstraction, but as damien mention i failed to close it again with the menuclose. has anybody an idea how this can be done ?
related to GEM:
if i close this abstraction, lets say its a cube, is this cube then also dissapearing , and i dont want to make it just invisible by turning the renderchain off, i want it really to "go away", to not use any ressources anymore .... ?
thx
erich
hi,
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Mark Danks wrote:
If you turn off a render chain, then no rendering occurs at all down the chain (ie, the gemhead returns immediately on the render call instead of running the chain).
yep i could see it on my cpu
but does one know about the closing of an abstraction via sending a messsage to pd anyway (wit was mentioned with the menuclose, but i m not getting it to work) ?
thx
erich
hi,
the target of 'menuclose' message should not be pd (as with 'open' message) but the abstraction itself:
pd-<abstraction-name-spelled-just-as-in-its-window-title> menuclose
(note the dash between 'pd' and abstraction name).
Krzysztof
rat@telecoma.net wrote: ...
but does one know about the closing of an abstraction via sending a messsage to pd anyway
...
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