[PD-dev] how does Pd represent a patch when that patch is running?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

So my experiments with doing a shared patch using the pd GUI messages  
has demonstrated that this approach won't work very well, so I have a  
new idea.  I want to track the patch in memory.  Basically I want to  
track canvas, obj, msg, text, connect, etc., i.e. the info that Pd  
saves in the file rather than mouse, mouseup, motion, key, etc. that  
comes from the GUI.

I did a little digging around and haven't found this part in the pd  
code yet.  Can anyone give me any pointers as to where I should look,  
how it works, and how I might access this info from a patch?  I would  
also need to find out object state info, like position data from  
sliders, num/symbol atoms, toggles, etc.

.hc

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