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XCode : How to know a patch is in an iterator Hey ! For a custom plugin I'm currently programming, I need to know if a patch is inside an iterator or not. I'm giving a unique name to the output objects (structures), to find them back in a stack, using their memory address. But for the iterated objects the memory address is always the same. So I'd like to append a number after it. For example, my custom patch output a structure like this :
In an iterator, all my objects will have "bg087FF" as ID. I would like my program to know if it is in an iterator, then append the current index after it. I don't know if I'm understandable... :-/ Sorry for my poor English, once again. Ben
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Add an input to your patch called "Index", and pass the output of
Iterator Variablesinto it. (There's no other supported way to get the current iteration index.)Thanks Smokris. Too bad there's no other way to get it...
Another thing you can do is try to rig it so that it can go into external time base mode, if the values would be different at each time step. Then you can gather the results in a queue and let that build the structure for you. You'd still be hooking something to an iterator variables patch though.
I think you can assign a variable to a parent patch if it exists by referring to the parent patch's class, and then "do cool stuff", but I don't think that is going to get you that needed iterator variables info, since the parent patch (the iterator) doesn't deliver it.