[PD-dev] adding an "Open" method to pdlua and tclpd

[Martin Peach]

On 2011-10-27 19:07, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>


> It would be really awesome if you could edit the file and have the
> object automatically updated.  That would be a lot harder.  I suppose
> using the file alteration monitor stuff in GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, you
> could efficiently get notification whether the file changed, but polling
> might not be so bad.  I guess the hard part would be re-registering the
> object with Pd.
>

If the editor could send back to Pd the name of the file that was saved 
it would be much easier.

For now you could just save it under a new name and make one of those.
Also the [pdluax] object loads its script each time it's instantiated so 
you can use the same name, although you still need to make a new object 
on the canvas.

OTOH dynamically changing the inlet/outlet count of an object especially 
when there are more than one in a patch would seem to guarantee crashing 
of Pd.

Martin