[PD] subpatches and delay lines

[Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu]

Hi Chad.

	You can use "$0-". PD will replace it with an id (number) that is
unique for each instance of the patch. For example you can name your
delay line "$0-delay".

[delread $0-delay]

.....

[delwrite $0-delay]

etc.

If you create 2 instances of you patch you will get something like
"1023-delay" and "1024-delay".

Note that this mechanism is not generic (that is $0 is replaced this way
only at the beginning of a string, do not try
"this-is-my-delay-number-$0") and it doesn't work, on purpose, inside
messages.

You can find more about this in the HTML manual (which explains many
basic concepts of PD). And there are examples in the tutorial patches
too.

It is the only way to make a local variable in PD but it works nicely.

HTH,

Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 22:58, Chad Wood wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem... I'm implementing a simple comb filter subpatch that I
> can re-use.  The subpatch uses a delay line.  My problem is that if I have
> multiple instances of the subpatch in a larger patch, I have a naming
> conflict with the delay lines because they all have the same name.  Right
> now I'm saving my patch as comb~.pd and invoking it as an abstraction.  Is
> there a way to get around my problem without copying and pasting the patch
> every time I want to use it?
> 
> Thanks, this is my first post!
> 
> Chadwick
> 
> 
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