Make `Receive (Local)` to retrieve value from ancestor patches

[ajitid]

The thing with Send/Receive (Local) is that if I have added a node in the main application patch and surrounded it with Send (Local) region, I can’t use the Receive (Local) inside that node’s definition to receive a value that I’m sending through the Send (Local) region defined in the parent patch. Could a Receive(Scope) node be added, or a flag be added to Receive (Local) to support this?

This request is similar to what is being requested here where they mention the ability send the Send value to sub-patches as well.

React has called Context API createContext – React which acts in similar fashion. In it, React keeps looking upwards the components tree till it finds a Provider for the Consumer.

[sebescudie]

@ajitid

I can’t use the Receive (Local) inside that node’s definition to receive a value that I’m sending through the Send (Local) region defined in the parent patch

Not sure I follow, if I have MyNode using a Receive (Local) and put it inside a Send (Local) with an LFO connected to the border, I get that LFO’s value

I guess this is not what you meant? Could you maybe share a patch showing what you could not manage to do? Here it also works if I’m nesting another level and use the Receive (Local) there.

SendLocal.vl (11.4 KB)

[ajitid]

@sebescudie

I guess this is not what you meant?

Oh this is exactly what I meant. It somehow wasn’t working that time when I tried. Must be a logic error that I did. Thanks!