If your patch is named foo.pd, send a "vis 1" message to it to give the window the focus, like this:
[vis 1( | [pd-foo.pd]
Automation is tricky. In pd-extended or vanilla it will crash pd if you try to get a patch to close itself.
Ivica made a fix for that in pd-l2ork-- which should work if you're only opening/closing every 2
minutes-- but I'm not sure if it's still crash-proof.
-Jonathan
----- Original Message -----
From: Tyler Leavitt thecryoflove@gmail.com To: pd-list pd-list@iem.at Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 4:44 PM Subject: [PD] Switching Between Multiple Patches for Installation
Hello all,
So I have around 8 generative patches/static compositions that I want to present as an installation. Less conceptual, more demonstrative of Pd. So about every 2 minutes I want a fullscreen window of one patch to close and the next patch to open fullscreen so that people can see the inner workings (I plan to do visuals through GEM and a projector). When I say fullscreen I mean fullscreen of the laptop, with the GEM visuals proceeding as usual. I understand how to accomplish the switching of the audio, but to get the patches themselves to take focus I'm afraid I'll need to write a script in Tcl/tkl, which I have no experience in. Does anyone have suggestions, or code from a similar presentation they could share?
Thanks, Tyler
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