[PD-dev] getting Pd's version within Pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 28, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Tim Blechmann wrote:

>> Yes, that sounds good.  Is there currently anything that sends data
>> to [r pd]?
>
> i once added an api for controlling the audio settings by sending
> commands to 'pd' ...

yes, I saw that patch, I would be good to have that included.  I think  
Miller had an issue that he posted on the patch tracker.  I think it  
should be possible to get that issue resolved and that patch included  
in Pd core.

>> I think that a standard receive symbol would be a nice standard
>> interface to a lot of things, like querying the state of audio/midi
>> hardware, querying the meta information of a patch, setting/getting
>> canvas name, etc.
>
> well, it would be possible to query the state of all global
> (interpreter) settings like audio settings, but i don't see, why it
> should be used to query information from patches ... one would need a
> |thiscanvas| or |thispatcher| object for that ... (or if it's for
> dynamic patching just use dyn~)

I am also talking about not-yet implemented features, like the  
namespace for the patch which was recently discussed.  I think that  
would work well with this kind of interface.  It could use the  
[namecanvas] name and the patch receive symbol, i.e.:

[; pd-mypatch.pd editmode 1(


[r pd-mypatch.pd]
|
[route editmode]
|
[X]   <- (this would be a [tgl])


.hc

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