[PD] self-modifying and dynamic patching

[Phil Stone]

I may not be thinking this through correctly, but how do you handle 
broken connections with inlets/outlets in the cleared subpatch?  I.e., 
the containing patch will lose its patch connections to the 
inlets/outlets of the subpatch if the sbupatch is cleared.

Phil

> With certain clean patching habits it's not that bad. For example the original
> nqpoly4 was rather messy because it did the dynamic patching in the abstraction
> itself, used namcanvas for it and thus relied on a certain initial state. 
>
> What I changed was to remove namcanvas, do the dynamic patching inside of a
> subpatch and started with clearing that patch from a loadbang. 
>
> A loadbanged [; pd-subpatch clear( IMO is mandatory for dynamic patching in
> abstractions. Even if it's saved with old content that will be removed on the
> next load.
>
> Another use for dynamic patching is automatically creating parts of static
> patches.  For example my piece "Frost" on the GOSUB10 netlabel release uses 60
> resonant bandpass filters driven by noise bursts. Of course I didn't patch all
> of these manually and changed their arguments, instead I used dynamic patching
> to generate the filter bank once, which then was saved into a static patch.
>
> In that use case, one should not use a loadbang'd clear of course. ;)
>
> To add another example: I use dynamic patching in the list-abs-intro.pd patch
> to generate a list of all list-abs in the [list]-abs collection.
>
> Ciao
>