[PD] Args for a patch

[Michal Seta]

I recently fantasized about such functionality when I needed to run a
patch on 5 different computers where some things needed to  be setup
differently depending on which computer they were running and I solved
that with a simple shell script which used pdsend to provide the
arguments to the patch.

./MiS

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Basically yes, sort of. matju's got it on the money. If you use $1, $2 etc.
> to mark the position of your arguments within a patch, save it, then save an
> empty patch in the same location (or else put the location of your first
> patch in your paths) then you can make an object with the name of your
> patch, which operates as an abstraction, essentially an object containing
> your patch. Which will take a list of arguments, the first of which will
> effectively replace $1 within it, the second, $2 and so on.
> So, yes, but you have to open the patch from within PD.
> Hope that's helpful for you.
>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:11:16 -0400
>> From: matju at artengine.ca
>> To: jancsika at yahoo.com
>> CC: pd-list at iem.at
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Args for a patch
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>
>> > Hi list,
>> > Is it possible to specify arguments for a pd-file when you open it?
>>
>> no.
>>
>> or: just if you instantiate it as an abstraction.
>>
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