[PD] a patch closing itself

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hmm, maybe there could be a "closeme" message in Pd, you send [; pd  
closeme pd-test.pd 1( , then Pd will close that window safely...

unless people think it's feasible to get menuclose working on the  
patch itself.

.hc

On Nov 5, 2007, at 10:24 PM, marius schebella wrote:

> I think that causes pd to crash. you have to send the message to  
> some parent patch, together with the name of the patch, that should  
> be closed, and do the menuclose from there with a dalay 0.
> marius.
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I just thought of a very useful reason to be able to use  
>> [menuclose ( to close the current patch.  If we replace things  
>> like the find  panel, preferences, etc with pd patches, then they  
>> should be able to  close themselves so you can do things like bind  
>> Return/Enter to "OK"  and Esc to "Cancel".
>> Has anyone found a way to do this?
>> .hc
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