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README for pd external 'sprinkler' (formerly 'forward')
=head1 DESCRIPTION
'sprinkler' objects do dynamic control-message dissemination.
Given a list as input, a 'sprinkler' object interprets the initial
list element as the name of a 'receive' object, and [send]s the
rest of the list to that object.
=head1 INSTALLATION
Issue the following commands to the shell:
cd sprinkler-X.YY (or wherever you extracted the distribution)
./configure
make
make install
=head1 BUILD OPTIONS
The 'configure' script supports the following options, among others:
=over 4
=item --enable-debug , --disable-debug
Whether to enable verbose debugging messages.
Default=no.
=item --enable-forward , --disable-forward
Whether to create [forward] objects as instances
of the [sprinkler] class (MAX-incompatible).
Default=no.
=item --enable-all-forwardmess , --disable-all-forwardmess
Whether to use pd_forwardmess() for all messages. If this
option is disabled (the default), messages of length 1 will
be handled specially; thus a symbol 'foo' will be passed as
'symbol foo', rather than just 'foo'.
Default=no.
Future versions of 'sprinkler' may use pd_forwardmess() for
all messages by default -- go on, try it!
=back
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PD by Miller Puckette and others.
Ideas, black magic, and other nuggets of information drawn
from code by Guenter Geiger, Larry Troxler, and iohannes m zmoeling.
Thanks to Krzysztof Czaja for pointing out to me the existence of MAX "forward",
and to Miller Puckette for the name "sprinkler".
Thanks to Erasmus Zipfel for a bugreport and useful ideas.
=head1 KNOWN BUGS
One of the acknowledgements used to be in this section.
Sorry, folks.
Backwards-compatible version is incompatible with MAX.
Semantic strangeness with singleton messages is somewhat cryptic.
=head1 AUTHOR
Bryan Jurish E<lt>moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.deE<gt>
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