Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dynamic number of "message" ports using nports

[Josh Blum]

On 07/29/2013 08:37 AM, macbany wrote:
> I'm using GnuRadio 3.6.5.1 and I wanted to create a block similar to
> stream-to-streams for messages. In the XML I used a variable and nports so I
> could specify the number of ports in the flowgraph. However, I've found that
> this does not work. Whenever I change the variable value to something
> greater than 1, the variable ID turns red and the number of ports displayed
> does not change. Simply changing the port type to something other than
> "message" works correctly. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
> 
> 

So I think its sort of fundamental the the message ports cant be scaled
like that because they are named and not linearly indexed. You could
find a way do to it, but its a more invasive GRC change I guess. Perhaps
Martin's GSoC student might consider doing this for the GRC
improvements, if not already?

-josh

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