On 08/06/10 16:24, Ryan Trigg wrote:

I'm am trying to figure out if there's a way to automatically rename a set of abstractions, ie. I would want [abstraction 1], [abstraction 2], and [abstraction 3] to be renamed to [abstraction 11], [abstraction 12], and [abstraction 13] with just one click of the mouse. This is because I want to open up a second instance of my patch without "cross contamination" of data. Maybe there's a completely different way of going about this that I'm unaware of, any help would be appreciated.

If your patch used [abstraction $0-1] [abstraction $0-2] etc, there would be no risk of conflicts (*). But then maybe you could just use $0 inside the [abstraction] itself: $0 is a unique number for each loaded file.

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/x2.htm#s6.5

(*) but note: 1 and $0 are numbers, while $0-1 is a symbol

Claude

http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org

Hi Ryan,

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 08:24:18AM -0700, Ryan Trigg wrote:

I'm am trying to figure out if there's a way to automatically rename a set of abstractions, ie. I would want [abstraction 1], [abstraction 2], and [abstraction 3] to be renamed to [abstraction 11], [abstraction 12], and [abstraction 13] with just one click of the mouse. This is because I want to open up a second instance of my patch without "cross contamination" of data. Maybe there's a completely different way of going about this that I'm unaware of, any help would be appreciated.

Maybe you can start with [abstraction $0-1] and [abstraction $0-2] instead? Or with [abstraction $0 1] and so on. Then if your abstractions are coded in a way that takes $0 into account, you could just keep everything the way it is, because Pd automatically assigns a unique value to $0 in each new patch.

Ciao

Frank