Ben,
I had the same issue when it came to saving abstraction's gui settings in the path of the parent patch. My solution was to have a sort of Mother sub-patch that I copied into all of my patches. My abstractions then communicate with the mother patch, and it knows what path the parent's in because it's a sub-patch, not an abstraction.
So I guess no, there is no way. I asked this... many months ago and got the same response.
David __ _ _ _ _ __ ___ _ ___ __ _ _ _ ____ __ Music wants to be free http://sintheta.org
Ben Saylor wrote:
Is it possible for an abstraction to get the path of the parent patch?
I have an abstraction called sample.pd that takes the name of a soundfile to load as an argument, and I would like it to look for the soundfile in the parent patch's directory, rather than my abstractions directory.Thanks, Ben