Cycling 74 » Topic: Strange behaviour from toggle? Or bang?

Strange behaviour from toggle? Or bang?

oivindi — Sat, 15 May 2010 10:59:21 +0000

Check out the simple patch below. What is happening to the bang object below the toggle object? Nothing (I thought) is happening to the toggle object until the “>= 0.95″ is true, when it becomes “1″, yet the bang object seems to be triggered all the time while toggle is set to “0″ (check float objects to the left).

It seems I have misunderstood how either toggle or bang behaves, but, again, I thought nothing was being output from toggle until the state change from “0″ to “1″, and back again.

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Re: Strange behaviour from toggle? Or bang?

Floating Point — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:24:06 +0000

This should explain it

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Re: Strange behaviour from toggle? Or bang?

brendan mccloskey — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:41:12 +0000

This used to confuse me for a while too; until i read the [>=] object’s helpfile: it is continually assessing the input and returning a zero or one. What you do with the result is up to you, merely connecting a [toggle] or [bang] will result in continuous activity, misleading us into thinking that the expression is always true – it’s not, it’s always either true or false. I simply added a [select 1] to your patch:

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Brendan