[PD] A little help in automating pd?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 14:45 -0400, marius schebella wrote:

> [;pd open mypatch.pd /home/marius/pd(

woks here the same (note: you can use relative pathes, but they are
relative to the location, where you started pd from)

> [;pd menuclose pd-mypatch.pd(

this doesn't work on my computer with my version of (pd 0.40.2): "unkown
message menuclose". are you sure about that? in order to dynamically
close patches, i use:

[; pd-nameofthepatch.pd menuclose 1(

the '1' avoids the 'close this window?'-popup.

roman



> marius.
> 
> 
> Daniel Wilcox wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So this is my first post to the list.
> > 
> > back story:
> > I'm running pd in Linux on a small wearable computer.  I do not
> > use a screen, mouse, or keyboard, just an arduino box with a button
> > and some other doo dads to control patch loading / activation.
> > 
> > I've successfully automated pd in Windows using a python windows
> > testing library to grab widgets and send keys to applications, but the Gnome
> > alternative cannot see tcl/tk widgets ... I'm better off running without 
> > a gui anyway. :P
> > 
> > I've hacked a quick controller patch using the ;open message for a show, 
> > but that was only
> > a temp fix as I have no way to close patches from within pd ... or is 
> > there?  I do not
> > want to have to open an entire set of patches at once as my machine only 
> > has 256 Mb of ram
> > and, if I start using lots of samples, this could be a problem.
> > 
> > So now I'm exec launching and SIGINT'ing pd in C :
> > - lauch pd with the current patch and remember the process id
> > - the patch contains an osc object to receive all of my controllers
> > - sigint pd when I'm done (btw Whats the cleanest kill signal to send?)
> > 
> > Now my questions are:
> > 
> > - Is there a built in way to close an open pd patch from within pd ...?
> > 
> > My thinking is that I can open pd with a small control patch that 
> > receives messages to open and close
> > patches.
> > 
> > - If not, has anyone made an automation object? Would anyone be 
> > interested if I attempted
> > to write one?
> > 
> > - Does having a built-in method to do this provide any advantage over my 
> > current solution of launching/killing pd?
> > 
> > The advantage I have now is that I can monitor the running status of pd 
> > so if it crashes, which it has done when using
> > the aforementioned temp hack, I can safely kill and restart on the 
> > current patch.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dan Wilcox
> > danomatika
> > www.robotcowboy.com <http://www.robotcowboy.com>
> > 
> > 
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