[Bluemusic-users] Function Tables within Blue

[Jim C. <ji...@ce...>]

When encapsulating instruments so they can be reused, what's the best  
way of handling function tables?

I read somewhere in the manual that ftgen is a good way forward, so  
I've been doing something along the lines of :

gisinetab	ftgen	0, blah, blah, blah

However the gi variable is a global variable, am I going to run into  
name space clashes if I have more than one instrument that uses a  
variable call gisinetab?  It's difficult to remember to come up with  
unique names for these things.

I'm guessing there's a good solution, if not I can imagine a way of  
having blue handle them seamlessly.  It'd be fantastic to have an  
instant feedback table viewer too, I see this is mentioned in the  
Tables Manager section of the manual.  I take it the tables manager  
only takes input of the form:

f1 blah ....

Which limits it's use in encapsulated instrument design.

Now if the tables manager existed within the instruments and objects,  
had some nice syntax for using local table names and automatically  
rendered the table, preferably with graphic handles for grabbing bits  
of the thing and swinging it around it'd be amazing.

Might have to dust off my java book :)

thoughts?

J.