Re: [PD] Get name of patch from within the patch

On 03/04/2014 01:15 PM, Ivica Bukvic wrote:

...and [patch_name] external (again pd-l2ork only) that outputs the filepath out of the left outlet and the patch filename out of the right outlet.

There's also

[patchname $1( | [duplicate_effort]

Just fill $1 with the name of the object you want to create, and [duplicate_effort] will automatically compile another class with that name and with the functionality you want.

Currently [duplicate_effort] supports the following methods:

patchname dollarargs abs~ pow~ bandlimited_grabbag arraysize mousecoords count string duplicate_effort

Each class created is guaranteed to be unique so you can use it to create private keys. You can also give it an extra float argument to specify help patch quality. (All values default to zero.)

To download a copy, start a repo in github and code up another version of it.

-Jonathan

On Mar 4, 2014 12:47 PM, "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika@yahoo.com mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 03/04/2014 03:00 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:


    On Tue, Mar 4, 2014, at 02:54 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:

        Hello,

        On 03/03/14 21:55, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:

            Hi. I've been googling a bit and looking through the
            library of objects
            that comes with pd-extended, but can't seem to find a
            way to get the
            name of the patch from within the patch. Anyone know
            of a nice method to
            do this?

        I would use [namecanvas] for this. For example you could
        have an object
        like [namecanvas $0-mypatch] and then you can send
        messages to the patch
        using e.g. [s $0-mypatch].

    Thanks, but this won't work for me, as the name has to be the
    actual
    patch name.

    I've understood that there might be a fix in the svn version of
    [canvasname], apart of iemguts, which would allow getting the
    name of
    the top level patch.

    The reason I had for this is I wanted to have uniquely named
    patches
    that have a common save mechanism, which looks up the savefile
    based on
    the unique patch name.
    I was always going to create these uniquely named patches in
    another top
    level patch, so I can get around this problems by adding an
    argument for
    the patch, which is the same as the patchname, and let the save
    mechanism look up the filename that way.

    I initially would have wanted the uniquely named patch to be
    able to be
    opened as is, but that's not a major problem.


Currently I think the only way to do this is
[filename(---[canvasinfo], which is only in Pd-l2ork.

-Jonathan


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