[PD] Hans - window_name FR

[Luke Iannini]

Right, after all kinds of bumping around Pd's sourcecode and reading
the ANSI C guide... (my C experience has been limited to copy and
paste previously)

Here's the thing.  Check it out and I'll check it in.
Best
Luke

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 15, 2008, at 3:21 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I thought about that, I shouldn't be too hard, but I am not  going
>>>>> to have any time to do it for the next 2 months, probably.   Feel free to
>>>>> beat me to it.
>> Okee - I whipped my first request up today: canvas_name and
>> window_name can now access their parents.  I shamelessly copied the
>> code from iemguts : ).  Forgot to add credit, will do before I commit.
>>  Hans, is it alright if I just commit the changes?  I attached the
>> diffs and Intel Mac compiled versions of both if you want to try it
>> out.
>>
>> I'm going to try to do the subpatch-name version now; do either of you
>> have any tips on how to get the canvas/window from a symbol like
>> "pd-$0.mysubpatch"?
> Alright, I figured this out by looking at the tot sourcecode, so now
> my new question:
> How do I let [window_name] and [canvas_name] accept either a float or
> a symbol, looking up parents in the case of a float and looking up a
> remote window in the case of a symbol?
>
> Attached is the symbol-taking remote window version.
> Cheers
> Luke
>
>>
>> IOhannes, by the way, I compiled iemguts yesterday and wow, what an
>> incredible number of possibilities those objects open up!  All of them
>> should be part of vanilla, IMO.  Thanks so much for making them - I'll
>> be making a ton of stuff with them in the coming months.
>>
>> Best
>> Luke
>>
>>>>> I think that ggee's getdir has a good model for how to do it.
>>>>> Basically, using numbers to represent how many levels down to get  from.
>>>>
>>>> this is the scheme i use with the iemguts objects: use numbers to
>>>> represent how many levels to get _up_.
>>>>
>>>> fmgasdr
>>>> IOhannes
>>>
>>>
>>> I think we mean the same thing, just depending on whether it is a tree or
>>> roots. ;)  If it is a tree, then the parent would be at the bottom.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>
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