[PD] passing $0 from an abstraction to another abstraction

[i go bananas]

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On Wednesday, December 10, 2014, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm creating an abstraction (say it's called test-parent.pd) which creates
> another abstraction (called test-child.pd) inside a subpatch, a number of
> times according to the argument passed to test-parent.pd.
> What I want to do is store $0 of test-parent.pd and pass it to all
> instances of test-child.pd to set a name for [throw~] which is in the
> test-child abstraction, like this (this is in test-parent.pd):
>
> [loop] <- this is an until loop with a counter
> |
> [t   f    b]
> |         |
> [* 20] [$0]
> |         |
> |         |
> [pack f f]
> |
> [obj 100 $1 test-child $2(
> |
> [s subpatch]
>
> Inside test-child.pd I have this:
>
> [loadbang]
> |
> [$1 ]
> |
> [set $1-sum(
> |
> [throw~]
>
> Say that $0 of test parent is 1004. What happens is that, even though all
> test-child.pd abstractions are created like this [test-child 1004], I get
> the following error: throw~ 1127-sum: no matching catch
> There is a [catch~ $0-sum] in test-parent.pd, which, I guess, is updated
> accoridng to $0, but [test-child] seems to have been stuck to 1127 (I'm
> clearing the subpatch where all [test-child]s are being created, and then
> create the abstractions)...
> Any clues?
>
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