[PD] Reasoning behind PD opening multiple copies of the same patch

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Its often useful in Pd to open multiple instances of a patch.  For  
example, I just release the 'many' lib which lets you run many  
instances of a patch.  But yes, it is a bit weird when you are used to  
most apps where it only lets you have one instance of a file running.

Any suggestions on how to handle it both ways?

.hc

On Nov 24, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Joe White wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I'm just wondering if there is reason behind PD opening another  
> instance of an already running patch instead of just pointing to it  
> (on OSX anyway).
>
> To me there are a few undesirable consequences such as problems when  
> editing, duplicates of global sends/tables and sometimes not knowing  
> you have two open.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something?
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
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