I have encountered a new entry in an enumeration pin, what is it for?
Enumerations can get additional entries if these are specified in the saved patch file. For example this usually happens with enumerations of sound card drivers or video card adapters: If you are opening patches which are created on a machine with a different hardware configuration, the name of that hardware gets stored in the patch file – on another machine with the different hardware this extra entry occurs in addition to the installed hardware. The advantage is, that if you save the patch and open it again on the orginal machine everything is the same as before. So the values in the patch file do not get lost – even if they are not included in the enumeration of the currently running implementation. Also this strategy simplifies the implementation of loading of multipatch setups with cyclic dependencies a lot.
