[PD] reload a patch

[Chris McCormick]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:54:55PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Max Neupert wrote:
> 
> >now it does. all-though it crashes my pd completely if i try to close 
> >while there are more than one with the same name opened. this is 
> >probably not a feature.
>
> When a canvas closes, it removes itself from the receivers list using 
> pd_unbind. When the number of receivers goes from 2 to 1, pd_unbind 
> deletes the [bindlist] object. At this point, [bindlist]'s method has not 
> finished running, which is what causes the crash.

Yikes!

I am not sure if this would suffer the same problem, but what I do for
this kind of dynamic opening and closing of patches is have a bunch of
subpatches in my main patch called:

[pd inst1]
[pd inst2]
[pd inst3] etc.

Then I send internal messages to them to add objects called the patch I
want to dynamically open. When it's time to delete those patches, I
issue a [clear( to the subpatch which closes and deletes the instance of
the dynamically open patch. I am pretty sure I have had multiple
versions of the same patch open in this way before.

Maybe you can use this method Max? If you'd like an example I can send
one through.

Best rgds,

Chris.

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