On Jan 11, 2016, at 1:31 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: [PD] finding out if an abstraction instance exists

Date: January 11, 2016 at 12:24:44 PM MST

To: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>, "pd-list@lists.iem.at" <pd-list@lists.iem.at>

Reply-To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>

I can think of two ways:

1) something like canvas_find method -- walk through every toplevel looking for a canvas_class of the relevant filename/binbuf/whatever

2) take the abstraction's name, add "pd-" to the front, create a t_symbol* from 

it and go spelunking in the symbol's s_thing for receivers.  But this isn't 

foolproof, as someone can easily create a receiver with the same name as 

an abstraction.

I encapsulated #1 in the pd-l2ork introspection objects [pdinfo] and [canvasinfo].

-Jonathan