[PD] access to pd internals from pd patch oder so ähnlich

[Sukandar Kartadinata]

OK, the following is a bit complicated and maybe somewhat futile but 
I'm curious:

As some might recall I have this embedded music computer called the 
gluiph which is powered by pd. Currently patches are uploaded thru a 
serial link.
First I did this thru a simple utility, but as it got tedious to 
constantly switch between apps I wrote the uploader as a pd patch 
itself (initially using [comport], now thru [pyext].pyserial). This 
works fine.

The next step was to avoid switching between the uploader patch and the 
"real" one.
For this I added a (menu+shortcut) command to pd.tk that tells the 
(background) uploader patch the name and path of the current top patch, 
so it can read it from disk and transfer it to the gluiph. This works 
too.

However, I'd prefer to have a solution that would do this w/o the pd.tk 
mod - any ideas ?

Additionally, I'd be curious to know if it's possible to access a 
running pd patch directly (as binbuf or text) so I wouldn't have to 
save it first before loading it in again for the transfer.
Of course it's possible by modifying the source and/or the tcl/tk stuff 
(done that) but I wonder if it can be done from a (second, 
"background") pd patch.

(Future: transfer the patch after every editing step, so the running 
patch on the gluiph always reflects what you have on screen)

hope this makes sense
thanks,
Sukandar


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