[PD] pd-msg

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Luigi Rensinghoff  
> <luigi.rensinghoff at freenet.de> wrote:
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> do you know how the numbers change if you cut everything from patch  
> and paste it back in ?? my impression is that it does not start  
> from zero ?? What if you copy it to a new patch ? then it should  
> start from zero.....
>
> Well, if you are making these patches PROGRAMMATICALLY, then you  
> can't cut and paste, as there is no way to do that in programming.
>
> You might want to open up some abstractions in a text editor, you  
> can see the code that PD uses to create these objects directly. It  
> is very enlightening.

cut and paste is possible too.  Check out pd-msg for the details.   
Basically, you need to programmatically draw a box around the around  
the area to select the objects, then send the cut and paste messages.


> Well sure i could keep track of that....but what if i would like to  
> modify an existing patch....
>
> Can't do it programmatically. You can only add objects to an  
> existing patch, and if it is something that already has existing  
> objects, there is no way to know how many objects are already in a  
> patch.
> mike

It would be non-trivial but possible.  You could count the lines in  
the .pd file with "#X obj" in them, that would give you the total  
number of objects.  I guess you'd have to count symbolatoms and  
floatatoms too.

.hc


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