[PD] which canvases open on patch startup?
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu
umbpux at tin.it
Wed Mar 12 20:08:39 CET 2003
Yes, that's right.
This is the reason why I used to put UI canvases of abstractions in
sub-patches of the abstraction and open them on request. That is the
abstraction gets a bang somehow (inlet or receive) and in turn opens its
subpatch.
There may be other messages but that's the way I did.
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:45, Nick Fells wrote:
> Hi, thanks but that only seems to work for subpatches, not for
> abstractions...
>
> I have two abstractions:
>
> [avat 0]
>
> [avat 1]
>
> which load 'avat.pd' of course, with args 0 and 1 respectively - any
> suggestions as to how I'd get these to open at startup?
>
> thanks
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote:
> >
> > Why should save the parent canvas with the subcanvas open or send a "vis
> > 1" message to the subcanvas.
> >
> > If you have [pd my-subcanvas]
> >
> > [loadbang] ---> [; /
> > [pd-my-subcanvas vis 1\
> >
> > In my experience PD can be quite boring regarding these things.
> > Sometimes PD seems able to redraw correctly a subpatch only at the
> > second run. Really, it is funny but it almost deterministic.
> >
> > Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 16:02, Nick Fells wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Dumb question that continues to fox me and that has been covered
> > > before... what determines the canvases that open when one starts up a
> > > patch? I have a top level canvas that should open two abstraction
> > > canvases; I can't seem to get this to happen.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Nick
> > > --
> > > Dr Nick Fells,
> > > Music Department,
> > > University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0) 141-330 4096
> > > Glasgow G12 8QQ Fax: +44 (0) 141-330 3518
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> > >
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> Dr Nick Fells,
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> University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0) 141-330 4096
> Glasgow G12 8QQ Fax: +44 (0) 141-330 3518
> UK. http://www.gla.ac.uk/music/staff/nick
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