Hi Jack,
Thanks for your help. That's great but is not exactly what I'm looking for. In my previous email I missed an important bit, what I'd like to do is pass an arg to a specific patch. Something like
pd mypatch.pd 23
and then in "mypatch" I have [$1] that is now 23.
Cheers, Mario
Ah, that's an interesting idea. Unfortunately, your proposed syntax wouldn't work because any arguments after the flags are treated as patch files, so in your case Pd would try to open "mypatch.pd" and "23".
Top level patches usually don't use creation arguments because it is not really possible to provide them with the current opening mechanism. But I totally see how this could be useful. It would need some surgery in Pd, though. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub!
In the meantime, you can have a wrapper patch with a receiver which dynamically creates the actual patch with the desired creation arguments.
Christof
On 08.06.2020 15:23, Mario Buoninfante wrote:
Hi Jack,
Thanks for your help. That's great but is not exactly what I'm looking for. In my previous email I missed an important bit, what I'd like to do is pass an arg to a specific patch. Something like
pd mypatch.pd 23
and then in "mypatch" I have [$1] that is now 23.
Cheers, Mario
Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
I like this idea very much! Could there be an argument flag? e.g.
$ pd mypatch.pd -a 23
Basically like terminal commands in sox, where the flags apply to import and output files dependent on the placement, in PD it could work as flags for PD before and in between the filename(s) to be opened.
Sebastian On 8 Jun 2020, 14:54 +0100, Christof Ressi info@christofressi.com, wrote:
Ah, that's an interesting idea. Unfortunately, your proposed syntax wouldn't work because any arguments after the flags are treated as patch files, so in your case Pd would try to open "mypatch.pd" and "23". Top level patches usually don't use creation arguments because it is not really possible to provide them with the current opening mechanism. But I totally see how this could be useful. It would need some surgery in Pd, though. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub! In the meantime, you can have a wrapper patch with a receiver which dynamically creates the actual patch with the desired creation arguments. Christof On 08.06.2020 15:23, Mario Buoninfante wrote:
Hi Jack,
Thanks for your help. That's great but is not exactly what I'm looking for. In my previous email I missed an important bit, what I'd like to do is pass an arg to a specific patch. Something like
pd mypatch.pd 23
and then in "mypatch" I have [$1] that is now 23.
Cheers, Mario
Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
-
Christof Ressi -
Mario Buoninfante -
Sebastian Lexer