[PD-dev] Multiinstance support in libpd

[Thomas Mayer]

Hi,

I have taken up my work on my FLOSS projects again, and I am currently
working on multiinstance support in libpd for the C# wrapper. The work
is going quite well, only two things are bothering me:

- I do not use the main instance (pd_maininstance in the Pd source
code), because not using it makes the wrapper easier to maintain. What
are possible negative side effects of that?

- As far as I can see, MIDI and messaging hooks are not associated with
a Pd instance, and especially not decoupled. Is there a way to set hooks
to instances, and hook up to the same symbol in different instances? How
would that be possible in libpd code? What are changes in Pd itself, if
necessary?

Thanks,
Thomas
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