[PD] edit or play mode information

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
robbert van hulzen hat gesagt: // robbert van hulzen wrote:

> thanks. i don't think i fully understand your reply, but i'm also not sure
> whether this is what i need: i'm not looking for simpler and / or more
> flexible ways to control mode & cursor movement.
> i'm looking for a way to make a keyboard action 'conditional': hitting the
> spacebar should have no effect in edit mode, and perform certain things (to
> be hooked up per version of the 'motherpatch' that i base patches for
> specific pieces on ... at least that's the plan ;) ) when in play mode. so
> i'm looking for a way to get the information about status mode from pd,
> which i'll then attempt to have control a spigot or sth similar.

I don't think, this is possible, also because edit-mode is a
per-canvas setting. You can have edit mode enabled in one subpatch,
and disabled in another subpatch. (see attached)

A good trick I heard from Peter Plessas: You could use CAPS_LOCK to
switch between a custom performance mode and an edit mode. Just
connect a [spigot] to your [key] [keyname] or [gemkeyname] objects and
switch it on and off with CAPS_LOCK. I don't use this because I don't
have a CAPS_LOCK key (it's mapped to an additional CTRL-key here,
which is more comfortable when pressing CTRL-E all the time.)

Ciao
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#N canvas 309 144 446 212 10;
#X obj 32 130 s pd-edit;
#X obj 132 134 s pd-noedit;
#N canvas 553 451 450 300 noedit 1;
#X floatatom 150 109 5 0 0 0 - - -;
#X restore 131 155 pd noedit;
#N canvas 76 448 450 300 edit 1;
#X floatatom 150 109 5 0 0 0 - - -;
#X restore 32 153 pd edit;
#X obj 32 29 loadbang;
#X msg 32 87 editmode 1;
#X msg 132 88 vis 1;
#X obj 32 52 t b b;
#X connect 4 0 7 0;
#X connect 5 0 0 0;
#X connect 6 0 0 0;
#X connect 6 0 1 0;
#X connect 7 0 5 0;
#X connect 7 1 6 0;