[PD] How to get the name of the parent patche

[eric skogen]

guillaume wrote:

>Hi all,
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>I am searshing a way to store data in my abstractions and i wanted to know
>if there is a way to get the parent patch name (I want to store data with
>pool and i'd like to save data whith the parent patch name...)
>More generally, i wonder if there is a way to deal whith files in  pd
>(create a directory for example).
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>Thanks
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probably best to pass it as a variable. one technique is to pass a $0 
(patch's unique identifier) to the abstraction, which the abstraction 
refers to as it's first arg ($1). i don't know of any way to get the 
patches string name specifically save for some tcl hackery?