A bit trickier solution would be to add the possibility to lock a given patch, i.e forbid to open it twice.

This could be either via an additional object (e.g [lock]), or a GUI property that would be saved into the patch file, like the font size.

This would require that, when a patch is requested for opening, the file would be first read, then discard if either [lock] is present or lock_property is set and a toplevel patch of this file is already opened.

Antoine

Le sam. 22 sept. 2018 à 23:11, Christof Ressi <christof.ressi@gmx.at> a écrit :

I can imagine it being it a GUI preference. maybe there could be a dialog asking you if you really want to open the same patch again with the usual 'yes', 'no' + 'don't ask me again' (saving your selection in the GUI preferences).

OTOH, I kind of agree with the others that I never thought it was a problem that you can open the same patch several times... if it's just for test tone patch, this could be solved in other ways.

Christof

> Gesendet: Samstag, 22. September 2018 um 22:53 Uhr
> Von: oliver <oliver@klingt.org>
> An: Pd-list <pd-list@mail.iem.at>
> Betreff: Re: [PD] multiple instances of a patch forbidden in 0.49, why?
>
>
> >
> > 1) ugly workaround, make symlinks to the same patch so it can be opened
> > (and then managed) via different filenames or directory names)
> >
> > 2) I could add a message to pd or perhaps a startup flag, or both, to
> > switch the behavior on and off.
> >
> > 3) (I doubt this is a good idea) I could make it "0.48 compatible" to open
> > duplicates.
> >
>
> my vote is #2 !
>
> (that is: both a startup flag AND a possible message to PD to
> dynamically turn it on/off)
>
> now we only have to decide what the default behaviour should be ;-)
>
> (i personally think that multiple patch instances
> should stay the default.)
>
>
> best
>
> oliver
>
>
>
>
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