#N canvas 0 0 448 451 10;
#X floatatom 210 123 0 0 0 0 - - -;
#X floatatom 177 123 0 0 0 0 - - -;
#X msg 177 71 5 6;
#X floatatom 115 123 0 0 0 0 - - -;
#X floatatom 47 123 0 0 0 0 - - -;
#X text 19 37 Most Pd messages are just numbers or short lists of numbers:
;
#X msg 47 70 5;
#X obj 47 98 + 9;
#X obj 115 98 +;
#X obj 177 98 unpack;
#X msg 271 70 5;
#X obj 271 122 print;
#X obj 271 96 pack 34 78;
#X msg 115 70 5 6;
#X floatatom 165 345 0 0 0 0 - - -;
#X obj 165 320 +;
#X msg 165 271 1.2 3.4;
#X msg 174 294 5 6;
#X text 19 217 Unlike Max \, in Pd all numbers are floating point.
Numbers whose values happen to be integers are displayed without decimal
points.;
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18 -261139 -33289 0;
#X obj 407 2 pddp/pddplink http://puredata.info/dev/pddp -text pddp
;
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#X text 12 105 WEBSITE http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/;
#X text 12 85 LIBRARY PDDP;
#X text 12 5 GENRE tutorial;
#X text 12 45 LICENSE SIBSD;
#X text 12 25 KEYWORDS control GUI;
#X text 12 125 HELP_PATCH_AUTHORS Miller Puckette. Updated for release
0.33. Jonathan Wilkes revised the patch to conform to the PDDP template
for Pd version 0.42.;
#X text 12 65 DESCRIPTION messages and message passing in Pd;
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#X text 7 2 Messages- Related Help Documents;
#X obj 26 91 pddp/pddplink ../5.reference/all_about_messages.pd -text
doc/5.reference/all_about_messages.pd;
#X obj 26 193 pddp/pddplink ../5.reference/all_about_atoms.pd -text
doc/5.reference/all_about_atoms.pd;
#X text 26 38 There are a bunch of patches in doc/5.reference/ that
go into more detail about many of the objects and concepts mentioned
here. Follow the link below to see a more detailed patch about message
syntax in Pd:;
#X obj 24 141 pddp/pddplink ../1.manual/index.htm;
#X text 26 113 Also \, make sure to have a look at the Pd manual to
learn the nuts and bolts of messages in Pd:;
#X text 26 165 To find out more about atoms \, or discrete pieces of
data that make up messages \, see:;
#X restore 103 430 pd References;
#X obj 6 430 pddp/pddplink ../5.reference/pddp/help.pd -text help;
#X text 19 167 If you send a list to the leftmost inlet of an object
with more than one inlet \, the items in the list are spread out over
the inlets \, as seen in the 5+6 example above.;
#X text 19 378 For more on messages \, bring up the message box help
patch by right-clicking any message box and choosing "Help".;
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