[PD] documenting messages to/from Pd and dynamic patching

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 22:06:33 CET 2021


I realize now how this can be useful and important to make abstractions
fire a loabdang if they are created via dynamic patching!

Well,  I added this information then, with examples.

Em dom., 28 de nov. de 2021 às 17:30, Alexandre Torres Porres <
porres at gmail.com> escreveu:

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> Em dom., 28 de nov. de 2021 às 16:33, João Pais <jmmmpais at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> I think you didn't understand - if you have an abstraction called "abs1"
>> used in the patch, sending messages to pd-abs1 won't work. They need to be
>> sent to pd-abs1.pd - and that could be clearly named in the documentation.
>>
> Oh, I see! Yes, there's a very good reason I didn't put that in the
> documentation: I had no idea that's how it works :)
>
>
>> It is a quite peculiar situation,anyway.
>>
>
> Then I'll just add the remark that abstractions need ".pd", but you should
> most probably just use [namecanvas].
>
> thanks
>
>
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