[PD] "get" method for Pd

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>; "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 8:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] "get" method for Pd
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 05:21:29AM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>>  > 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
>>  > 
>>  > 
>>  > 
>>  > 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!

You can already do this if you know the file name of the patch.  With my canvas get 
method, a patch can retrieve its own filename.  In either case you can also save the 
a revised patch using [textfile].

-Jonathan

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris.
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