[PD] [PD-announce] getpatchname

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Miller Puckette wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:00:46PM +0100, Jamie Bullock wrote:
>> Also, the external is currently buggy in the sense that it retains the 
>> patch name from the external's instantiation, so if you rename the 
>> patch then send a 'bang' message to the object, it will report the 
>> 'old' patch name. This is because accessing 
>> canvas_getcurrent()->gl_name from a method call rather than from 
>> getpatchname_new results in a segfault. I would be interested to know 
>> why this is....
>
> canvas_getcurrrent() is only valid in the context of teh new() routine...
> you can call it there and save the result in the instance structure if you
> need to refer back to it (as in this case.)

Yes. It seems like every GUI object has such a backpointer in its struct, 
including msg (Ctrl+2), floatatom (Ctrl+3) and symbolatom (Ctrl+4). Why 
not make it standard and add it to t_text ?

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