Receive messages from outside a patcher
inlet can be used within a patcher to receive messages from outside the patcher wherever it is embedded. Each inlet object in a patcher will show up as an inlet at the top of an object box when the patch is used inside another patcher (as an object or a subpatch). Messages sent into such an inlet will be received by the inlet object in the subpatch. A patcher can have a maximum of 250 signal inlets. The number of data inlets is a much bigger number than that.
|| Double-clicking on an inlet object will open the parent patch or bring it to front.
|| Sets the mouse-over Assistance message for the inlet. This value can only be set using the Comment setting in the inlet object's Inspector.
Inlets of the subpatch... correspond to the inlet objects in the subpatch