I have a widget that basically works as a slider. It generates streams of OSC data, which I'm receiving with a PD patch. You could think of it as a slider combined with a switch, so you can control an alpha-value (ranging from 0-1) by sliding along the surface, but it also (to a separate OSC address) sends a 1 when you put your finger on, and a 0 when you take it off. That way you can make the slider output only active when you touch it, or not, as you see fit.

Problem: how do I combine these inputs into a continuous signal? When I just feed them into a && or a * they seem to want a bang input, too.

You can use [route 0] after the

• . The signal at the right side will come through only if the number is not "0".

OK, I read this reply, and looked back at my code, and (duh) I'm now a little clearer about what I'm doing. So, there's one stream of data (the slider) and there's an occasional switch value that comes across when there's a change.

So I looked at the help screen for osc~, and lo and behold, there's an example that does exactly what I need. Problem solved.