Oh!! is that what that is!, however you can still see this in the patch, that is why I was confused. I will take a look at that,
thanks Roman. BTW, is there a method to get the file name that you open in the patch? something like canvasname but from the parent itself? (donno if I am explaining myself properly here) cheers On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Roman Haefeli <reduz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Don, 2016-10-06 at 16:39 +0100, José Rafael Subía Valdez wrote: > > I dont know if it has been discussed, I have searched the archives > > but didnt find anything simliar. > > > > would there be a way to write a META DATA section at the end of a .pd > > file? > > I guess this is more of a request. But what if there was a META DATA > > section available to record things that would be "binded" (don't know > > if "bound" is the word) to the file. Maybe this could be an open - > > available- part of the pd file for users. I have been trying to do > > this in PD by simply writing at the end of the file and then with the > > [text] object or any similar go to the section where I would have my > > meta data. The problem is that pd erases this section when saving the > > file. > > > > thoughts? > > Yes. Have a look at help patches of many libraries (for instance zexy > or osc). They do use meta data by putting comments into a subpatch > named [pd META]. This has two advantages over what you propose: > > * You can edit/add them with Pd > * You can easily parse them with Pd (with [text], for instance) > > netpd uses a similar kind of meta tags for declaring version, > dependencies and other stuff. The only difference is that the subpatch > is named [pd NETPD 2 0] (2 0 being the version of the meta data format) > and it uses message boxes instead of comments. Check [netpd-properties] > if you're interested in seeing how such a meta tag parser could be > implemented in Pd. > > https://github.com/reduzent/netpd > > Roman > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list > > -- José Rafael Subía Valdez www.jrsv.net
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