Ah, yes, a fourth option: have a new "pd really-open" message to open a file without checking if it's a duplicate.
cheers M On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 06:18:42PM +0200, IOhannes m zm??lnig wrote: > On 9/22/18 3:17 PM, katja wrote: > > Much to my alarm, Pd 0.49test3 prevents loading multiple instances of > > a patch, and release notes tell us that this is on purpose. > > > funnily, i recently worked on a related regression where double-clicking > on a Pd-patch (in your favourite Windows exploder) would start a new > instance of Pd (rather than switching to the current instance and > raising the patch if already opened). > > note however, that this regression (fix) is unrelated to what you are > describing. > > and i agree that it should be possible to open the same patch multiple > times. esp. on a programmatic layer (that is: by sending messages to Pd). > i guess, when opening an already opened patch from the menu (Ctrl-O), Pd > could *ask* whether this is really intended. > > > > gkmdsar > IOhannes > > _______________________________________________ > 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