pix wrote:
wow, i just found myself asking almost the same question earlier this year, on this list *slap*.
okay, so miller writes:
If you name a subpatch "fred" for instance, you can send messages to "pd-fred". I've used it to add text comments to windows automatically, but in principle you should be able to do anything that appears in a
saved
Pd file (adding and connecting objects).
the problem here is that if you have two abstractions called fred, the actions appear to happen to both of them (i've just been playing with the selectall at the moment), which makes it a little less useful than i had first imagined.
is this something that can be avoided?
hi !
the most simple thing would be: using "namecanvas $0-fred" somewhere in the abstraction and then talking to (modifying) an object $0-fred, as you are used to to this. i always do it this way, so i can be (quite) sure, that i am modifying only the current patch.
again:: no matter, what pd says, "namecanvas" is not obsolete !!!
(i think, this might is the answer i gave you "earlier this year")
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