Ah, sorry I terribly misread your question! Ignore my last mail :-/

Passing arguments to subpatches is currently not possible. Generally, how would you distinguish between abstraction creation arguments and subpatch arguments? $1, $2, $3, inside a subpatch already refer to the enclosing abstraction's creation arguments. This means you would need a dedicated syntax (or a dedicated object) to access subpatch creation arguments. I don't see this happening, to be honest.

I'd say, if you need creation arguments, just use an abstraction ;-)

Christof

PS: internally, subpatches don't really have creation arguments at all. Instead they have a pointer to the canvas environment of the enclosing abstraction or root canvas.

On 16.08.2020 04:01, William Huston wrote:
Sorry, is this documented anywhere?

I see a -x option to the [clone] object, which works for abstractions only.

I am talking about a general way to send positional parameters into a subpatch
similar to how I can pass parameters into an abstraction.

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 9:28 PM Christof Ressi <info@christofressi.com> wrote:

This would be a nice feature

Do you mean the "-x" flag? ;-)

Christof

On 16.08.2020 02:42, William Huston wrote:
What about this?

      [pd NAME IGNORED ...  -p ARG1 ARG2...]

This would be a nice feature, in that it would make subpatches work more like abstractions.

Thanks,
BH

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