> the patch's behaviour depends on the
layout<br><br>Arr ... that&#39;s right !!!<br>Still, it doesn&#39;t mean that the layout is mandatory. It just means that those infos should be extracted and saved somehow.<br><br>This should be pretty simple ... for example, if I think of inlets in a abstraction, I guess pd infers that inlets are numbered from left to right.<br>
So what&#39;s the problem !? Inlets can be saved with their id :<br><br>{&quot;type&quot;: &quot;inlet&quot;, &quot;id&quot;: 0}<br><br>What else do you have in mind ?<br>