Hey all,

Coming back to PD after a long hiatus. I'm trying to learn how to do dynamic patching with the built-in internal messages, but the old examples don't seem to be working properly.

I copied the pd-msg folder from PD-extended and added to my PD vanilla (0.46.7) "path" (the one in Program Files/Common Files/PD)
I saw that the folder loaded in Pd's 'browser' and started going through all the examples. As I went through I noticed some worked fine, while others gave me error messages in the console. All examples work fine in PD extended (0.43.4)

Is there updated documentation on dynamic patching/internal messages in PD vanilla? do the pd-msg examples only work in PD-extended?

There is no new documentation AFAIK, and the one you're working with is indeed outdated and incomplete. It's about time that someone updated it!

In the mean time and to get you started, I would say that these are the most useful dynamic patching commands (I'm filling in the variables with examples to make it easier to read).

• obj 100 100 metro 500 create an object "metro 500" at canvas coordinates 100 100)

• connect 1 2 3 4 connect the 2nd outlet of the 1st object to the 4th outlet of the 3rd object (note that object numbers are counted according to the order of creation. You can find them by using iemguts/canvasselect or you can count, starting from 0, the objects listed in the .pd text file.)

• disconnect 1 2 3 4 same

• vis 1/0 open and close a particular window

• dsp 1/0 turn dsp on and off

• donecanvasdialog alter the GOP properties (can't remember the arguments for this off hand--you'll find them elsewhere in this forum