[PD] Pass arg to Pd via terminal

[Christof Ressi]

Ah, that's an interesting idea. Unfortunately, your proposed syntax 
wouldn't work because any arguments after the flags are treated as patch 
files, so in your case Pd would try to open "mypatch.pd" and "23".

Top level patches usually don't use creation arguments because it is not 
really possible to provide them with the current opening mechanism. But 
I totally see how this could be useful. It would need some surgery in 
Pd, though. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub!

In the meantime, you can have a wrapper patch with a receiver which 
dynamically creates the actual patch with the desired creation arguments.

Christof

On 08.06.2020 15:23, Mario Buoninfante wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> Thanks for your help. That's great but is not exactly what I'm looking 
> for.
> In my previous email I missed an important bit, what I'd like to do is 
> pass an arg to a specific patch.
> Something like
>
> > pd mypatch.pd 23
>
> and then in "mypatch" I have [$1] that is now 23.
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
>
>
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