[PD] multiple instances of a patch forbidden in 0.49, why?

[Antoine Rousseau]

>
> when trying to load a patch twice, pd becomes unresponsive
>

I confirm that; whatever the decision, this doesn't seem to be a desirable
behavior...;-)

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Le sam. 22 sept. 2018 à 19:35, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> I have to say I like the new feature and being able to avoid loading the
> same patch twice, even as an expert, so I guess a flag or something that
> allows us to configure this is fine.
>
> Em sáb, 22 de set de 2018 às 13:30, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>
> escreveu:
>
>> Ah, yes, a fourth option: have a new "pd really-open" message to open
>> a file without checking if it's a duplicate.
>>
>> cheers
>> M
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 06:18:42PM +0200, IOhannes m zm??lnig wrote:
>> > On 9/22/18 3:17 PM, katja wrote:
>> > > Much to my alarm, Pd 0.49test3 prevents loading multiple instances of
>> > > a patch, and release notes tell us that this is on purpose.
>> >
>> >
>> > funnily, i recently worked on a related regression where double-clicking
>> > on a Pd-patch (in your favourite Windows exploder) would start a new
>> > instance of Pd (rather than switching to the current instance and
>> > raising the patch if already opened).
>> >
>> > note however, that this regression (fix) is unrelated to what you are
>> > describing.
>> >
>> > and i agree that it should be possible to open the same patch multiple
>> > times. esp. on a programmatic layer (that is: by sending messages to
>> Pd).
>> > i guess, when opening an already opened patch from the menu (Ctrl-O), Pd
>> > could *ask* whether this is really intended.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > gkmdsar
>> > IOhannes
>> >
>>
>>
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