I recently fantasized about such functionality when I needed to run a patch on 5 different computers where some things needed to be setup differently depending on which computer they were running and I solved that with a simple shell script which used pdsend to provide the arguments to the patch.
./MiS On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Andrew Faraday <jbtur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Basically yes, sort of. matju's got it on the money. If you use $1, $2 etc. > to mark the position of your arguments within a patch, save it, then save an > empty patch in the same location (or else put the location of your first > patch in your paths) then you can make an object with the name of your > patch, which operates as an abstraction, essentially an object containing > your patch. Which will take a list of arguments, the first of which will > effectively replace $1 within it, the second, $2 and so on. > So, yes, but you have to open the patch from within PD. > Hope that's helpful for you. > >> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:11:16 -0400 >> From: ma...@artengine.ca >> To: jancs...@yahoo.com >> CC: pd-list@iem.at >> Subject: Re: [PD] Args for a patch >> >> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >> >> > Hi list, >> > Is it possible to specify arguments for a pd-file when you open it? >> >> no. >> >> or: just if you instantiate it as an abstraction. >> >> _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... >> | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: +1.514.383.3801 > > ________________________________ > Get a new e-mail account with Hotmail - Free. Sign-up now. > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list