Right, I'm rofgetting, the "pd $0-x" ends up naming the canvas "pd-$0-x" which is hard to generate as a symbol. My problem with "namecanvas" is that one can free or rename the patch (or just free the namecanvas object itself in the patch) and crash Pd. I still haven't found a clean alternative... so for now, I'll have to keep the mis-designed "namecanvas" object around for the forseeable future.
cheers Miller
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:42:05PM +0100, Tim Blechmann wrote:
hi miller, hi devs ...
i wrote an abstraction using message-based patching ...
therefor, i was sending the messages to pd-test.pd ... but since it's an abstraction all other instances of test will receive the same message, resulting in the multiple creation of the object ...
to solve this, i had to use namecanvas $0-test... and send the messages there ... (example patch is attatched)
am i missing something obvious or is namecanvas not as obsolete as the helpfile says...
cheers ... tim
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