Hi all,

Is there any possible way for pure data to save slider positions, so that I may set a vertical slider at a certain position, save it, close pure data, and when i re-open the patch it would still be in the same position????

I really hope there is, please help

Hywel

my current thinking is that, if there is some way of a bang pushing a number value into a comment box or other (stays the same when patch is closed), then a loadbang could push this value back in to the slider upon opening the patch.

is there any way to load a number into a comment box or other type of box that will save the value upon closing the patch????

To save them in message boxes:

[hslider]
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[set $1(
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You can also open the gui's properties and click the "no init" button. When you do, it will change to "init" and load the state that it was in when the file was last saved.

ah perfect, don't even need to use the loadbang-comment box method now then! but a good thing to know about for future, big thanks Maelstorm!!

while we're on the subject, is there a simple object that i can put after a bang to cause a save (cmd+s), or maybe just a save file object???

also, is there any way similar to the "no init" -> "init" method to get toggles to save their 1/0 position between patch closes and opens??

all the gui objects have the init/noInit switches. toggles included.

for saving, it depends on what you want to save. You can send save messages to text files, graphs, patches and probably a few other things. What do you want to save?

ah yes, ive found what was happening. i had tried switching "no init" to "init" on the toggle, but it kept changing its state between closing and opening the patch, which was confusing me.

embarrassingly ive found it was because i had set up a [loadbang] into the toggle, followed by a [spigot], in an attempt to load the toggle's saved state into the [spigot]'s right input upon patch opening. this was of course switching the toggles state upon opening.

if anyone is interested i have now fixed this (see attached patch), so that i can use a toggle to open/close the [spigot]'s gate, which will then reamin in the same state between opening and closing the patch!

thanks for all your help!!

mod, with regards to saving i was referring to a button within the patch that would do a file save, i.e. cmd+s on mac, and i presume ctrl+s on pc???

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Exampleforforum.pd

you know, i don't think there actually IS a way to save patches with messages or objects. You can open, close, and create new patches (see pd extended help -> manuals -> pd-msg)
But I have never seen any mention of patch saving.

There's probably some hack though, by sending a patch to the [textfile] object and saving that....hmm.. not sure though

If what you're looking for is saving presets and such, then I don't think saving the init state of guis is all that great. In fact, I prefer using [loadbang] and [t ] over that so I can be sure things are happening in the right order. Plus, it's just not that flexible (i.e., you only get one preset).

You might want to have a look at my state-saving abstractions for that. I wrote them because doing this sort of thing isn't particularly straight-forward in Pd, especially for newbies, so I tried to make it easier.

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-5664-state-saving-abstractions

To save a patch send it a "menusave 1", like

[;pd-yourpatch.pd menusave 1(