> that's right - savestate just lets a patch add stuff to its parent
(calling) patch when the parent is saved, that is retrieved when reloaded
from a file.  I don't know of other meanings of "savestate" although the
name does (unfortunately) suggest that it's for object archiving ala
NeXTStep (and I think earlier from Smalltalk).
cheers
M

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 03:05:02AM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
>    > On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 6:35:34 PM EST, cyrille henry <ch@chnry.net> wrote: 
>  > here we are :
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> This case seems more like the Lisp problem-- every single user has their own non-standard, incompatible, and deeply personal solution to the problem.
> Also-- do I have it right that the only relevant native core class "savestate" isn't about statesaving in its common parlance, but is instead a callback hard-coded to the "save" event that writes a patch file to the filesystem? That's what the guts looked like when I ported it to Purr Data, but I haven't really used it yet.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> Le 21/01/2021 ?? 20:48, Antoine Rousseau a ??crit??:
> > You can also have a look to my "AutoPreset" system. It's available from deken. It's rather old, but that's what I use every day...
> >
> > Le jeu. 21 janv. 2021 ?? 19:39, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com <mailto:porres@gmail.com>> a ??crit??:
> >
> >?? ?? Em qui., 21 de jan. de 2021 ??s 15:09, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com <mailto:porres@gmail.com>> escreveu:
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> >?? ?? ?? ?? I??now included "import" and "export" functions so [savestate] can be used in conjunction
> >
> >
> >?? ?? Just making clear this design allows each instance to be saved with separate presets in a parent patch. Not that I find it crucial. I guess that 2 sharing the same preset bank should be fine for most cases. So using a file to load and save inside the abstraction (as it was possible before) was kinda fine. So this is where I start to think I could be compromising my beloved "KISS" principle... but I was already thinking??import/export was nice to allow people to store these things in the patch rather than a file, so it's cool. It's versatile and still simple enough.
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