[PD] reading the textlist of the patch I'm in...

[Chris McCormick]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 03:39:43PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> hi ed.
> 
> Ed Kelly wrote:
> > Hi chaps,
> > 
> > I've come up against something I can't solve without a deeper
> > understanding of pd's internal structure, I wonder if anyone can help.
> > 
> > I'm trying to build patches that know about each instance of themselves
> > when called as an abstraction, without the specification of creation
> > arguments to identify multiple instances of the same patch.
> > 
> > Basically I want to read the list of the ultimate parent from memory,
> > like you would if you read the pd patch into a text editor such as
> > emacs. I often edit patches in such an editor,and I find it allows
> > access to information about the patch in a sequential form that is hard
> > to get in PD (how many obj(ects) there are and in what order, what they
> > are etc.) and now I am trying to build patches that extend themselves in
> > realtime, I need to be able to read the patch I'm in.
> 
> you probably want to have a look at the iemguts, which i just presented
> here at piksel.
> 
> one of the basic goals of this libs is to add some kind of "self
> awareness" of abstractions.

I think the proper name for this is 'introspection', unless I
misunderstood.

Chris.

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