I think it would be easy enough to implement (message boxes would simply save $0 and put it somewhere when the message was getting passed - with some ugliness about recursion to worry about.)
But I'd like to find a solution that somehow allows accessing $1, etc, from either context. I can't find a good design that would accomodate this. (And as always, when I can't think of a good design, I simply work on something else instead hoping I or someone else will think of something good in the future :) M On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:19:10PM -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > Miller et al, > > The current code suggests that this should happen (binbuf_eval calls the > appropriate function), but since canvas_setcurrent is never called, it fails > and returns 0. > > Yet, I wonder why message shouldn't be able to pre-parse $0 into a valid > dollarzero (canvas instance), when there will never be a message one could > send into it that could trump this argument (how would one specify an > argument $0 anyhow)? I do understand that message is not meant to pre-parse > values, but shouldn't this be an exception? That way one creating a message > with an instance included does not have to go through the trouble of > creating an [$0] object that needs to be packed with the rest of the list > and then forwarded onward to a message object. > > Thoughts? > > If others are in favor of this idea, should this take place for all types of > messages passed into message object (bang, list, anything, blob, etc.)? > > -- > Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. > Associate Professor > Computer Music > ICAT Senior Fellow > DISIS, L2Ork > Virginia Tech > School of Performing Arts - 0141 > Blacksburg, VA 24061 > (540) 231-6139 > i...@vt.edu > www.performingarts.vt.edu > disis.music.vt.edu > l2ork.music.vt.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > pd-...@lists.iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
