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<h3>about netpd-abstractions</h3>

as a netpd user only, you never get in touch with netpd-abstractions, since they are used by netpd-patches and hidden in the inwards of them. if you are not interested in developing [netpd-patches] yourself, you can stop reading here. 

their goal is to make the synchronization of specific data sets across several instances
of the same netpd-patch on different clients easy and feasible. let's say you have a slider,
that controls the frequency of your patch and you want your patch to work the netpd way, you
just need to add a ![netpd-fx] with proper arguments to your patch and the slider is synchorized 
on each client, which means that your patch is a netpd-patch now. 

<h3>description</h3>

for more details and better explanations check
the help-patches.

![netpd-x] -- is not used to for sychronizing a specific data set, but keeps a whole netpd-patch in sync with others. it is kind of the master of all level3 abstractions (the ones ending with ..x). only one instance is needed per patch. through ![netpd-x] presets for the whole netpd-patch can be saved and restored.<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-x $0 &lt;patchname&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-ax] -- is used to synchronize an 'anything' message (with or without *list* selector)<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-ax $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-fdx] -- works the same as ![netpd-fx], but broadcasts its value only after a short delay in order to save network bandwidth.<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-fdx $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt; &lt;receivesymbol&gt; &lt;initvalue&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-flx] -- works the similar to ![netpd-fx] ... MORITZ - where is the helppatch? i don't know, what this one is for..... <br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-flx $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt; &lt;receivesymbol&gt; &lt;initvalue&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-fx] -- synchronizes a single float value. can be used to netpd-ify slider, numberboxes, toggles (etc.?).<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-flx $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt; &lt;receivesymbol&gt; &lt;initvalue&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-index] -- is a netpd-ified version of zexy's ![index] object. it synchronizes an index-list (see help of ![index]).<br> 
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-index $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt; &lt;maxnum_of_elements&gt; &lt;auto{0/1}&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-mtx] -- is a netpd-ified version of iemmatrix's ![matrix] object. it synchronizes a matrix (see help of ![mtx]).<br>
note: requires the "iemmatrix":ftp://ftp.iem.at/pd/Externals/IEMMATRIX -library.<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-mtx $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt; &lt;rows&gt; &lt;cols&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-sx] -- is used to synchronize pd's symbolbox.<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-sx $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt; &lt;receivesymbol&gt; &lt;initvalue&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-textfile] -- is a netpd-ified version of pd's ![textfile] object. all methods, that affect the current data in ![netpd-textfile], are broadcasted. methods, that poll the existing data, are executed only locally as well as the file IO methods.<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-textfile $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt;]
<br><br>

![netpd-tx] -- does synchronize an array/table.<br>
note: a change to the table will not be synchronized immediately, but with a certain rate. the bigger the table, the lower the update rate.<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-tx $0 &lt;sendsymbol&gt; lt;tablesize&gt;]

<h3>abs without dump-on-load and without preset mechanism:</h3>

![netpd-a] -- same as ![netpd-ax], but without extended features.
<br><br>

![netpd-f] -- same as ![netpd-fx], but without extended features.
<br><br>

![netpd-fd] -- same as ![netpd-fdx], but without extended features.
<br><br>

![netpd-t] -- same as ![netpd-tx], but without extended features.
<br><br>

<h3>sometimes usefull:</h3>

![netpd-r] -- universal receiver for any data.<br>
_synopsis_ : ![netpd-r &lt;sendsymbol&gt;]

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