For most of these situations I store settings in a table that saves in the patch. On load I just distribute them to my abstractions as init values. The problem of course is that you have to hand-code the receives and you want something automatic. The solution I posted on Facebook earlier (attached) uses the instantiation order of abstractions to request a unique ID from the main patch. But then you say this: "However, the order of creation resets if in a subpatch or an abstraction with GOP." I don't know what this means; are you saying that the instantiation order does not persist once you have the patch done?
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:11 AM, José Rafael Subía Valdez < jsubiavaldez@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Liam,
I am implementing a preset saving mechanism, not an initial value. Init will only save the initialization of the object. I was trying to avoid dynamic patching so users could just patch and if wanted to replace the normal TGL with the one that can record different states they could just replace it in a text file. But now I am looking into it. (but not happy as I got so close)
cheers
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Liam Goodacre liamg_uw@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Jose
I am not clear on what it is you are trying to achieve.
If you're looking for a toggle with a preset 1 or 0, then there is the "init" option from the properties which will save and load the value for you.
If it is some sort of dynamic patching problem where you need to send messages to the parent patch, then the easiest thing is to use [iemguts/sendcanvas], which lets you dictate a target level (ie. [iemguts/sendcanvas 1] will send messages to the parent patch.
Do either of these help, or are you still needing a special ID number for each instance of an abstraction?
*From:* Pd-list pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at on behalf of José Rafael Subía Valdez jsubiavaldez@gmail.com *Sent:* 04 September 2016 11:02 *To:* pd-list *Subject:* [PD] Stuck with a "persistency" problem
Hello List,
over the last couple of days, I have been programming a preset system using the [pool] object. I have made a lot of progress but now I am stuck with a persistence problem.
a couple of days ago I started with my "scope" tests to see if its working, this included
- on the main canvas
- in a subpatch
- in a GOP abstraction with no arguments
- in a GOP abstraction with arguments.
and here is where it got tricky. The solution that I have been trying to implement is to retrieve the parent window name or better yet the name of the canvas. [window_name] object by HCS does the trick, but the name changes every time you open PD and the file, so it is not persistent. [canvasname] on the other hand does not provide the parent canvas name.
Until now, the idea was to create a double ID that sets the name dynamically in order of creation thanks to M. Barber's and L. Goodacre's way of doing it, However, the order of creation resets if in a subpatch or an abstraction with GOP. so the second ID, would let me know the scope that I am in by adding the "window or canvas" that contains the abstractions.
Maybe someone can point me in the right direction or enlighten me with a different solution.
the objective of the set of abstractions is to just replace the object [tgl] with my abstraction [tgl_pre] and have the preset system working, so I am trying to do it without setting arguments with [tgl_pre $1] as this would imply that if I have 128 tgls, I have to rename each with a unique $1 each.
Thanks to all that have helped: T. Grill, M. Barber, L. Goodacre.
and thanks to anyone that can chip in with some ideas.
cheers
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