[PD] "get" method for Pd

[Chris McCormick]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 05:21:29AM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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> > From: Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>
> > To: pd-list at iem.at
> > Cc: 
> > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 8:12 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PD] "get" method for Pd
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> > 
> > 
> > How about 
> > 
> > [; pd get self rcv-name(
> 
> Not sure I understand this one-- what comes out of [r rcv-name] here?
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> > 
> > Dumps itself. Once I wanted to get Pd patches to print themselves,
> > can't remember how it was solved now, but the above would have 
> > been quite clear.

I think what Andy means here is the actual text of the patch itself as you would find by looking at the .pd file in a text editor.

e.g.
#N canvas 218 94 842 634 10;
#X obj 63 84 t a a;
#X obj 63 241 spigot;
#X obj 102 149 bang;
#X obj 102 168 1;
#X obj 223 149 route bang;
#X obj 183 150 bang;
...

Making 'self' a settable property would open up all kinds of lovely madness!

Cheers,

Chris.

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