Hallo,
Thomas O Fredericks hat gesagt: // Thomas O Fredericks wrote:
For state saving: I would like to create an abstration that saves an XML file (with the help of pool and memento for example) in the same folder as the parent patch. The file would have the same name except for an appended ".xml". That way, once you reload the patch, it reads the xml file, and voilà , your settings are restored.
What do you think about this aproach?
My opninion about using patch names as statefile names is mentioned sometimes in the archives: I don't like it, it's not the way, I think about what a pd patch is.
I consider a pd patch to be its own application, which was built using Pd instead of, say, C++. Presets in a pd patch then are like working files of this application. Assume you have a Pd application called "WORD.pd" then this could use all "*.doc" files everywhere as working files - like MS Word and Word-doc files.
However it is a bad idea to enforce the basename of the working file. What use would WORD be, if you could only save one file and this file would always have to be called "WORD.xml" and it would need to be in the same directory as the WORD.exe?
Now your approach is slightly different, in that you use another file just for restoring settings. I don't see the need for this extra file yet, though.
Ciao
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