hi,
I am sorry -- my original reply was meant to be a kind of a funny trick...
Anyway,
ggkarman@airtel.net wrote: ...
be to put something like [$1-quap $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 ...] into 1-quap.pd
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Does this mean making a new patch whose name is l-quap.pd and contains a message box with the text [; $1-quap $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 ...]
no: an object box, where '$1-quap' is a name of an abstraction.
then make a dummy 0-quap.pd,
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does this mean making a copy of the patch 1-quap.pd containing the same message box and saving it?
no: it might be empty, actually it might be anything, that does not contain '$1-quap' object in it.
nd type something like for fn in {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,...}-quap.pd ; do ln -sf 1-quap.pd $fn ; done into the shell
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i guess the shell is reached by going to /edit/texteditor. Do i have to
no: it means any standard shell interpreter. If you are on windows (without cygwin), then you might use a batch file, or one-by-one click-editing, but I am not sure about emulating symbolic links with file name aliases... One might use copies, instead of symlinks, but it is very cumbersome (the attached $1-quap.pds are copies of 1-quap.pd).
Krzysztof
#N canvas 432 242 447 294 12; #X obj 165 140 3-quap 2 1 0;
#N canvas 317 133 450 300 12; #X obj 173 153 print gotcha; #X obj 173 94 loadbang; #X connect 1 0 0 0;
#N canvas 216 110 712 370 12; #X obj 74 64 loadbang; #X obj 74 104 int $1; #X obj 74 147 print quap; #X obj 73 217 $1-quap $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13; #X connect 0 0 1 0; #X connect 1 0 2 0;
#N canvas 216 110 712 370 12; #X obj 74 64 loadbang; #X obj 74 104 int $1; #X obj 74 147 print quap; #X obj 73 217 $1-quap $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13; #X connect 0 0 1 0; #X connect 1 0 2 0;
#N canvas 216 110 712 370 12; #X obj 74 64 loadbang; #X obj 74 104 int $1; #X obj 74 147 print quap; #X obj 73 217 $1-quap $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13; #X connect 0 0 1 0; #X connect 1 0 2 0;