Dear forum,

I try to create an interface with 72 bangs, therefore it would be useful if I can indicate with colours if any of the bangs were at least once used. If I use the method which is in the bang-help file described inside the pd edit subpatch, the message sends it to all of the bangs in the interface. Do you have any idea, how to menage it to have an impact only on the certain bang, and not on all of them?
Originally, each bang should open one image in pix_image, so I made the message be activated after the pix_image loads the image. If loading is cancelled by the user, no message sent to the bang subpath, so there is no change in the color and in the label.
Hope it is clear, what I wanted to describe here

Best:

Popesz

@popesz bang_indexed.pd
David.

David,

thanks a lot, that's what I exactly needed.
IOU

Popesz

If you're doing 72 bang objects, then you might consider creating a GOP abstraction with one bang object and setting its receive symbol to "b-$1". Then you can create the object [my-abstraction 1] and my-abstraction 2]... all the way to 72, and the receive channels will be automatically assigned. This beats going into the property menu 72 times!

Liam,

I does not really understand your point.
Can you show me an example for the abstraction?
Adding to the bang preferences the argument to the receive symbol, it changes the $ to # automatically.

The symbol does change from $ to #, but it seems to work all the same.

Take a look at this:

bang.zip

Notice that I've left the "hide object name and arguments" option off to make the creation argument obvious, but you'll probably want to turn it on and re-size the GOP window.

You can also custom name the bang's send symbol if you like, and customize it in any way you like...