just rename it. Then you can benefit from the hacking of other people and if one day you share your hacks then your neighbour won't have problems either. What some people do is to just add a prefix to their objects/abstractions/modules/classes etc. like [sttReverb] or something like that. One option is to batch process ('find and replace') the files.

2010/8/26 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com:

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi,

I made a patch in Pd Vanilla and happened to create some abstractions that have same names (but completely different functionality) as some Pd Extended objects; so now if I open it in Pd Extended, the externals will be used instead of my abstractions.

Is there a way I can change this precedence, and have the abstractions in the patch folder take priority over library externals in case of name clashes?

thanks m,

You're asking "how do i win a fight?" and i'd say "avoid the fight" :o) what i'm saying is you could rename those abstractions, and i'f they are used too frequently in patches you could search&replace all occurrences at once with a text editor or grep. Of course if there is no other circumstance that goes against it.

Andras

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You could also remove the clashing libraries from your startup list, if you know which ones are causing the trouble. But this makes your patches far less portable. D.

On 8/28/10 1:17 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:

If I had been using Pd Extended when I was working at the patch, I would have detected and avoided any name clash at the very moment of saving each new abstraction I would create.

But now that the patch was done and I wanted to open it in Pd Extended, I just wondered if there was a way that would save me the pain of checking every abstraction.

Couldn't the abs folder be anywhere?

[abs_anywhere_in_path/abstraction_name]?

d.

On 8/27/10 11:51 AM, cyrille henry wrote:

create a abs folder in the patch folder put your abstraction in it create [abs/abstraction_name] object

Cyrille

Le 26/08/2010 21:19, Matteo Sisti Sette a écrit :

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Hi,

I made a patch in Pd Vanilla and happened to create some abstractions that have same names (but completely different functionality) as some Pd Extended objects; so now if I open it in Pd Extended, the externals will be used instead of my abstractions.

Is there a way I can change this precedence, and have the abstractions in the patch folder take priority over library externals in case of name clashes?

On 08/27/2010 12:01 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:

Couldn't the abs folder be anywhere?

[abs_anywhere_in_path/abstraction_name]?

sure.

fgmasr IOhannes

for now, extern have priority over abstractions. but replacing [abstraction_name] to [abs/abstraction_name] can be made in few sec with every text editor. on linux, i think sed can do it on many file on the same time... cyrille

Le 27/08/2010 18:13, Matteo Sisti Sette a écrit :

On 08/27/2010 11:51 AM, cyrille henry wrote:

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create a abs folder in the patch folder put your abstraction in it create [abs/abstraction_name] object

Cyrille

Thank you very much.

I was looking for a solution that wouldn't imply changing every single occurrence of every abstraction of mine in every file from [abstraction_name] to [abs/abstraction_name]... but i guess that's impossible isn't it?

thanks m.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette < matteosistisette@gmail.com> wrote:

On 08/27/2010 06:39 PM, cyrille henry wrote:

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for now, extern have priority over abstractions.

Ok thanks

but replacing [abstraction_name] to [abs/abstraction_name] can be made

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in few sec with every text editor.

Yes of course, but I have to do it for every abstraction_name.

However I now realise that I can get the list of abstraction names from the directory listing.

Also I didn't know sed, thank you for the suggestion.

I suppose you already got it, so for the archives:

To replace foo with foo_bar in multiple files: sed -i 's/foo/foo_bar/g' *.pd

Andras

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:51:52AM +0200, cyrille henry wrote:

create a abs folder in the patch folder put your abstraction in it create [abs/abstraction_name] object

Technically it's the same as renaming the files, so Matteo would still need to find/replace how objects.

Ciao

Frank