i was wondering if anyone has managed any success with very long long messages (say, 3072 floats, for example). i had a hunch from the beginning that creating a message box with 3072 floats would problem cause some problems and it did. Pd suddenly crashes and i get a stack overflow error message. any one know what the biggest message i can send is?

ps..if you were wondering, i didn't spend hours typing in 3072 numbers into a message box. my patch generates the message automatically with and [add2 $1( message.


-zac

i have had similar troubles with sending feedback type loops which are set to terminate after about 100 cycles.

i get the stack overflow message, but the patch still works ok.

what sort of monster patch were you writing anyway???

i was using such a large, monstrous, message to basically create a small image in GEM on the fly. the image would be based on audio information (however abstract the mapping). just a little experiment--nothing too important.
-zac