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

[eric skogen]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>eric skogen hat gesagt: // eric skogen wrote:
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>>i don't know of any way to get the patches string name specifically
>>save for some tcl hackery?
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>I also wonder, what use this could have. I never needed it in 4 years
>of Pd patching.
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>Ciao
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you're right. i can't think of any spectacular use for it either.

there are some commands you can send to a subpatch by name. for example, 
if your subpatch is [pd mySubpatch] you can reference it as 
pd-mySubpatch. and a [;pd-mySubpatch vis 1( message from the parent 
would display it.