hi

i'm relatively new to pduino / firmata business, and am puzzling over how, or whether it's possible to simultaneously switch all the digital out pins (or at least more than from within pd. from the help patches i gather it's possible to send 8 bit messages to the arduino with a message like [port 0 255< (to set 8 pins at a time with one message), and there's also a "strobe all pins" example, but this seems to send a series of [digital pin# boolean< messages rather than updating all the pins at the same time (the same would probably be true if i "strobed" 2 ports?). Does anyone know how this actually plays out on the arduino?

thanks!