What if there were a new kind of subpatch, like [pdx subpatch-name] to distinguish the duplicatable mirrored subpatches from the regular [pd subpatch-name] subpatches? This would prevent any incompatibilities with earlier patches. Of course someone would need to come up with a better name than pdx.

samuel burt

Message: 3 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:44:18 +0200 From: IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] repeated subpatches To: etienne deleflie et@lalila.net Cc: pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: 43267542.4020908@iem.at Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

etienne deleflie wrote:

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Hi,

hi. is it just me that gets annoyed that this email is part of the "separate GUI communication protocol" thread ?

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Does PureData offer an option where all subpatches of the same name are always identical? (or something similar?).

no pd doesn't do something like that. abstractions need to be available as separate files to be reusable. however, i remember miller has mentioned that he plans to allow (reusable) abstractions inside the main-patch. however, this has been a year ago, and it seems to not have made any progress.

(but probably he has just forgotten it, so your mail might remind him and it could get implemented for 0.40 :-))

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