[PD] Multiple (same) instances, and [sssad]

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Tas Pas hat gesagt: // Tas Pas wrote:

> I have a patch that features the same abstraction many times.  Each
> one of these abstractions are connected to different objects so they
> do other things each.
> 
> Now, trying to intergrade a snapshot feature to my patch, using the
> [sssad] object, I came to a problem with the abstractions: I opened
> each  one within the patch and added the [aaasd xxx] object.  When I
> save them all the same abstractions had the [aaasd xxx] object,
> which made my state load difficult (all the abstraction's setting
> are the same).
> 
> Can pd load each abstractions the object oriented way?  Each
> abstraction to have it's set of properties?

The trick here is to teach Pd to handle each use of an abstraction
differently by "tagging" it with a different name. I do this with the
first argument to the abstraction, and then, inside of that
abstraction use [sssad $1/xxxx] instead of just [sssad xxxx].

So your abstraction "myabs.pd" has this inside: 

[sssad $1/something]

and in the main patch you use [myabs] like this: 

[myabs one]
[myabs two]
[myabs third]

or similar. 

Then the sssad-values stored will be named like this: "one/something",
"two/something" and "third/something" if you save the settings.

$0 would do something like this automatically, but you cannot use
[sssad $0/something] in real life because if you save it to a file,
what gets saved is something like "1004/something" but the "1004"-part
will be different everytime you reopen the patch. So you have to use
explicit names as recommended above.

Ciao
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