[PD] pd-msg

marius schebella marius.schebella at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 16:48:38 CEST 2008


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> 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.

I would not recommend this, it is buggy, slow, and a resource for 
errors. if you really want to dynamically create and delete objects the 
best method is the dyn~ external http://grrrr.org/ext
marius.




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