[PD] [Csnd] Writing subpatch contents

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Chuckk Hubbard hat gesagt: // Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> I believe the question of saving automation data has come up before,
> but this is a different question, I think.
> 
> I want to write and read the objects in a subpatch to and from
> textfiles; not the state of the objects, nor scalars, but the patch
> itself.  Is there a way?
> I have 8 voices in my sequencer, and 8 subpatches for creating control
> values to send to csoundapi~.  But each Csound orchestra I work with
> will have different parameters for different instruments, and so the 8
> will be different from each other, as well as being different
> depending on what score I open in my Pd sequencer.  So I gave up on
> using abstractions with arguments, because whenever I change one they
> all change.  But AFAIK subpatches can't be read and written by sending
> messages to them.
> Any ideas?
> Is there a 'menusaveas' message or something?

Maybe you can script something with "select all" "copy and paste", but
did you try to use one of the saving systems like [sssad] to save
parameters? I don't know what exactly is in your subpatches, but I'm
pretty sure [sssad] can be made to save it. (taking my mouth quite full
here ;) 

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__