[PD] reading the textlist of the patch I'm in...

IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Sun Dec 7 15:39:43 CET 2008


hi ed.

Ed Kelly wrote:
> Hi chaps,
> 
> I've come up against something I can't solve without a deeper
> understanding of pd's internal structure, I wonder if anyone can help.
> 
> I'm trying to build patches that know about each instance of themselves
> when called as an abstraction, without the specification of creation
> arguments to identify multiple instances of the same patch.
> 
> Basically I want to read the list of the ultimate parent from memory,
> like you would if you read the pd patch into a text editor such as
> emacs. I often edit patches in such an editor,and I find it allows
> access to information about the patch in a sequential form that is hard
> to get in PD (how many obj(ects) there are and in what order, what they
> are etc.) and now I am trying to build patches that extend themselves in
> realtime, I need to be able to read the patch I'm in.

you probably want to have a look at the iemguts, which i just presented
here at piksel.

one of the basic goals of this libs is to add some kind of "self
awareness" of abstractions.


mfgasr
IOhannes




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