On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Luigi Rensinghoff < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> do you know how the numbers change if you cut everything from patch and >> paste it back in ?? my impression is that it does not start from zero ?? >> What if you copy it to a new patch ? then it should start from zero..... >> > > Well, if you are making these patches PROGRAMMATICALLY, then you can't cut > and paste, as there is no way to do that in programming. > > You might want to open up some abstractions in a text editor, you can see > the code that PD uses to create these objects directly. It is very > enlightening. > > > cut and paste is possible too. Check out pd-msg for the details. > Basically, you need to programmatically draw a box around the around the > area to select the objects, then send the cut and paste messages. > And yes, while this is possible, it just seems very "difficult" at best, to be able to create a patch and lay it out in such a way that you can make those sorts of selections. LOTS of planning would need to go into such a thing. > > > Well sure i could keep track of that....but what if i would like to modify >> an existing patch.... >> > > Can't do it programmatically. You can only add objects to an existing > patch, and if it is something that already has existing objects, there is no > way to know how many objects are already in a patch. > mike > > > It would be non-trivial but possible. You could count the lines in the .pd > file with "#X obj" in them, that would give you the total number of objects. > I guess you'd have to count symbolatoms and floatatoms too. > You could probably do this by loading the patch into a [textfile] object, if you need to do this programmatically. Mike -- Peace may sound simple—one beautiful word— but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. —Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), musician
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