On 01/04/2013 07:19 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
I think you're safe calling vmess() to pass no arguments to clip_new
(for example) - the worst that can happen is the "return value" (the
global "newest" is zero. If not it's a proper Pd object you can use zgetfn()
on to test it for messages.
Main problem I see with this is that some classes like "select" and "list"
are actually several classes that share a name (and which one gets created
depends on the arguments sent to vmess())
also, what happens if the object in question accesses some hardware
ressource? e.g. [pix_video] will try to grab an available video-source,
potentially locking a hardware device.
in theory this should not be aproblem, as the object will hopefully be
freed by [classinfo] asap, but in practice it might have all kinds of
side-effects, starting from short lockups of Pd to launching rockets.
gmfad
IOhannes
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