OK, let me try myself, please correct me:
An abstraction is a Pd patch which is used like an object in another Pd patch.
A subpatch is saved within the main patch and is constructed with [pd {name}]. Multiple subpatches with the same name may coexist.
Subwindow is the umbrella term for both of the prior terms.
If someone can confirm that the above definition is true, I will make some pull requests to the documentation/ help files since it isn't consistent. The pd~-help for example.
On 04.08.2018 14:05, Max wrote:
In the helpfiles and on this list the three words
'abstraction' 'subpatch' or 'sub-patch' 'subwindow'
are used. could someone provide a definition of those? I suspect they aren't used in a consistent way throughout the documentation.
m.
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