Perfect. Thank you guys. I haven't tried it yet but I'm sure this is exactly what I need, as closing the actual patch is irrelevant as long as I can get one to grab focus.

Tyler

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:
There's one in doc/manuals/0.intro/+pager.pd.  But notice that is doesn't try to

close any of the patches.

-Jonathan



----- Original Message -----
> From: Dafydd Hughes <dafydd61@gmail.com>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Tyler Leavitt <thecryoflove@gmail.com>; pd-list <pd-list@iem.at>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Switching Between Multiple Patches for Installation
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>  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.
>
> Not at pd right now, but can you get around that using an independent
> control patch that opens and closes patches?
>
> cheers
> dafydd
>