[PD] how can i differentiate same abstractions in different patches?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Thu Aug 26 20:44:35 CEST 2004


Hallo,
Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:

> there is an abstraction that is now very often used in my patches. now i'd
> like to modify this abs to get a new feature. for this i need to send a
> bang-msg to all abstractions within a patch, but not to the ones in other
> patches. i wonder if there is a way without having to change all abs [my_abs]
> in my patches into [myabs $0] or [myabs nameofpatch].
> is there a way to get the name of the parent patch? ($0 of parent patch to use
> as an identifyer would be useless in my case because different people uses the
> same patch for a net-project, so everyone has his own $0. the name of parent
> patch would  be a good indentifyer)

I don't think there is such a thing as getting at the parent's name.
That's why in RRADical I require the first argument to be a freely
selectable identifier, which doubles as an OSC target.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__




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