[PD] "Commenting out" objects in a patch?

[Krzysztof Czaja]

hi,

one quick and dirty way is to make a dummy abstraction with proper
number and types of inlets and outlets in it (and nothing more).
Call it nop.pd, and replace [<obj> <args>] with [nop <obj> <args>].

If there is a need to disable many objects with varying interfaces,
then designing a clean naming scheme for nop abstractions may become
a challenge.

But designing a builtin method of disabling arbitrary objects (that
are already created and patched) would be a much bigger challenge...

Krzysztof

Larry Troxler wrote:
...
> Thus, I thought it would be neat if there were a way in PD to "comment
> out" or disable certain objects in the patch. Of course, I can just type
> some garbage in front of the object names, for those objects that I wish
> to disable (that's what I'm doing now), but then all the connections are
> lost and I need to remember how to redo them the next time I enable the
> object.
> 
> So, I was thinking that it would be nice if there were a better way to
> disable objects, where the connections would remain, only the object
> would be disabled. I'm not talking about DSP processes only, but also
> disabling the the message passing.
...