[PD] getting the name/receive symbol of a patch/subpatch

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Does anyone know a way to get the name of a patch or subpatch from 
> within Pd? Basically I want to dynamically get the name that you would 
> use like this:
>
> [; pd-myobject.pd(
>
> The actual filename would work too.  It seems to me that this should be part 
> of a standard, message-based querying mechanism which could also be used for 
> patch meta data like local namespace, current dir, etc.

this can be done by modifying [getpatchname] (supposing its 
canvas_getcurrent bug gets fixed).

For a root t_canvas *x, instead of looking up x->gl_name, look up 
canvas_getenv(x)->ce_dir, which is also a t_symbol *.

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