[PD-dev] get canvas names in Pd

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Is there any existing way to get canvas names (.x%lx.c) from within Pd?

I'm pretty sure that you have to write an external for that. Fortunately, 
it can be simply a few lines, if it's only going to look up its own 
parent. You have to remember the parent using getcurrentcanvas in the 
constructor, then output that value when banged. You can store it either 
as a t_canvas* or directly the resulting t_symbol* or t_atom, but the 
former is more versatile, as you could add extra methods to get extra 
variants, such as just .x%lx for example.

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