Hi, star morin hat gesagt: // star morin wrote:
hi all. i'm fairly new to pd, and have a question along those lines:
i've created a 2 inlet sub patch called [vari-meter] to handle drawing of arrays (or a metronomicly refreshed tablewrite~ for the pendants :^). inlet 1 for signal, and inlet 2 for refresh speed. so far so good - it works.
i'd like to make the array name an argument to the patch to make it an abstract, but can't figure out how to pass it.
i've tried: [tablewrite~ $1] with a create of [vari-meter arrayname], but $1 is null. after reading some more of the docs, and it seems that arguments given to abstracts are 'create parameters' - how do i access these in a sub patch?
You can't! Subpatches - as in [pd vari-meter] - are an almost fullblown part of the surrounding patch, they just aren't visible (and might differ in blocksize).
Abstractions on the other hand - patches, that were saved standalone like in [vari-meter] - accept the $1,... creation arguments.
Attached are examples for both. Open the main.pd patch.
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__