[PD] Abstraction [define]

[Chris McCormick]

Hi,

Just to add to the noise, I'd like to say that I wholeheartedly support
this feature request.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:44:54PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > I am a big fan of the way that you have done it, Frank, using only  
> > existing objects.  I think to make the whole thing complete, there  
> > should be a set of GOP GUI objects with your state saving stuff  
> > inside.  Then people just use those GOP objects if they want state- 
> > saving.
> 
> Chris McCormick's collection has some of these. (I also have but they
> aren't published yet because I'm lazy...)

You can get my GOPified modifications of Frank's sssad abstractions
here:

<http://mccormick.cx/viewcvs/s-abstractions/sssad/>
<http://mccormick.cx/viewcvs/s-abstractions/sssad.tar.gz?view=tar>

I use these a lot in my own patches at the moment in order to do in-patch
state saving of all sliders without any externals. It works very nicely
with no fuss. Here's a four step program to follow if you want in-patch
state saving with no extra files, assuming that you have saved the sssad/
directory somewhere in your Pd path:

1. All of your abstractions' widgets should have a receive called
$1/whatever and a send called $0/whatever.

2. All of your abstractions should include:
[sssad/auto $0/whatever $1/whatever] for each widget.

3. When you create a new top level performance/composition patch, you
should add a box called [pd datastore].

4. Instansiate [sssad/datastore] once in your top level
performance/composition patch, and use the save and load buttons to
save/load the state of all widgets in all abstractions into the [pd
datastore] subpatch of your main patch.

As far as I'm concerned this means that Pd has state saving already. If
you add a [loadbang] to the load bang of [sssad/datastore] and if there
was a [savebang] which banged whenever a patch was saved, then it would
be possible to make this process completely transparent. One of these
days I'll get round to writing [savebang].

Have fun!

Best,

Chris.

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