Yes, that sounds good. Is there currently anything that sends data to [r pd]?
i once added an api for controlling the audio settings by sending commands to 'pd' ...
I think that a standard receive symbol would be a nice standard interface to a lot of things, like querying the state of audio/midi hardware, querying the meta information of a patch, setting/getting canvas name, etc.
well, it would be possible to query the state of all global (interpreter) settings like audio settings, but i don't see, why it should be used to query information from patches ... one would need a |thiscanvas| or |thispatcher| object for that ... (or if it's for dynamic patching just use dyn~)
tim