[PD-dev] how am I being created?

[Miller Puckette]

GUI objects can do this: give yourself a "save" method that invokes the 
object differently.  Regular text objects probably can't do it reliably,
although if there was a good reason for it I could put in a function for
detecting this...

cheers
Miller

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:11:03PM +0100, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
> hi Miller, hi all,
> 
> is there any way for a constructor ('new' function) of an external
> to know whether an object is 1. loaded from a file, or 2. created
> from menu (typed in, pasted/duplicated, etc.)?
> 
> Krzysztof
> 
> 
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