On Dec 9, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: > >> Well, this is not something that is within reach of many people. >> We need to understand not just PD's internals, but how flext uses >> them, and we also need to know how to integrate these things with >> the extended nightly builds. Not quite certain how many people >> know ALL of these things. Probably only a handful, and it would >> appear that none of them are interested in getting flext working. > > GridFlow also uses proxy inlets. There are simpler examples of > proxy inlets within pd itself. E.g. all [list] objects have it. > > Basically you need to create another object that will be the > "slave" of your main object, and then create an inlet that will use > that object. The second argument of inlet_new is for that: the > inlet appears on the first argument's box, but messages will be > sent to the second argument's object. In that case you pass 0,0 for > the other arguments (which are usually symbols, but here are null > pointers to mean "not applicable")
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