Check out [singleton] and search the archives for discussions on that:
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-03/048424.html
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On Mar 23, 2008, at 4:13 PM, best boy wrote:
hi
thanks for your help.
i checked out nopoly4 and polypoly, but they both seem to be
abstractions and ar
hi
thanks for your help.
i checked out nopoly4 and polypoly, but they both seem to be abstractions and
are not very helpful in my case.
i need a working solution that prevents the user from creating more than one
instance of an external i'm writing.
thanks anyway
olli
CC: pd-dev@iem.at
From: [E
hi
yes, it's for an external i'm writing.
i tried the global counter variable thing you recommended and it works, except
for
when the first instance is duplicated, or copy/pasted in a patcher. this
crashes pd.
do you, or anyone else, know of a working example of the global counter
variable thi
Hallo,
best boy hat gesagt: // best boy wrote:
> is there a way to keep track of the number of opened instances of an external?
> if so, can anyone point me to an example object?
You could wrap it inside an abstraction which has a running counter
stored in a [value MYOBJECTCOUNT] object. "MYOBJEC
best boy wrote:
> hi
> is there a way to keep track of the number of opened instances of an
> external?
Is this an external you are writing? Then yes. Otherwise there's weird
tricks you can probably do to keep track, but not control.
> if so, can anyone point me to an example object?
Just ha
