I can't believe that no one here knows something about this? I need help here, can not for the life of me find a way to detect mute status while inside a poly~. The z_disabled flag does not seem to be linked to this (although it does work using the mute~ object with a subpatch/abstraction. Help please?

best, Zachary

When an object is in a muted poly~ it's perform method is just no longer called. until you unmute it. Is there a specific reason why you want to know that?

I'm interested by your answer @Emmanuel. By saying its perform method, you mean everything inside the poly~ (metro, other objects) ?

Hi Emmanuel,

Without going into to too much detail here, my object accesses a CLASS_NOBOX object, shared amongst all objects with the same name attribute. I need to do something in each object's perform routine, regardless of it's mute state. Using the z_disabled flag I am still able to do these necessary tasks at every pass of the signal chain, when dsp is muted using mute~. I need to do the same thing when the dsp is muted inside a poly~. Wouldn't it make sense to have the z_disabled flag update based on dsp muting status inside a poly~ as well?

best, Zachary

@Emmanuel,

Do you or any other Cycling folks have pointers, examples, etc. showing how to make an object know it is inside a muted poly~? This is basically the last issue to be resolved in an object I'm working on, and I've been unable to come up with a way by myself. Would probably be worthwhile to post here for reference, in case others need to do something similar.

best, Zachary

No ideas from Cycling on this??? Is there just simply no way to know that you object is a muted instance of a poly~? Nicolas's idea about mutemap would have been my guess as well, if it's didn't require an outlet.

best, Zachary

check thispoly~ object.

I think that requires that a thispoly~ object always accompany an instantiation of my external, which I don't want to require. I'm looking for a C API solution.

Sorry but you'll have to find a way to either have a thispoly~ object somewhere in your patch. There's no way to figure this out from C. thispoly~ uses some private function to communicate with the poly~ object in the upper level.

It's not going to work. Thispoly~ needs to be instantiated in a patcher (to be able to find it's parent poly~) not in your object.

Thanks Emmanuel and Nicolas,

I guess for now, unless I can think of a redesign that avoids my current need for mute state knowledge inside a poly~, I'll just need to accept this is a limitation of the object.

best, Zachary