On 08/06/10 16:24, Ryan Trigg wrote:
I'm am trying to figure out if there's a way to automatically rename a set of abstractions, ie. I would want [abstraction 1], [abstraction 2], and [abstraction 3] to be renamed to [abstraction 11], [abstraction 12], and [abstraction 13] with just one click of the mouse. This is because I want to open up a second instance of my patch without "cross contamination" of data. Maybe there's a completely different way of going about this that I'm unaware of, any help would be appreciated.
If your patch used [abstraction $0-1] [abstraction $0-2] etc, there would be no risk of conflicts (*). But then maybe you could just use $0 inside the [abstraction] itself: $0 is a unique number for each loaded file.
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/x2.htm#s6.5
(*) but note: 1 and $0 are numbers, while $0-1 is a symbol