I have a range of patches called like this:

patch.1.pd
patch.2.pd
...
patch.n.pd

I've been using the

[;
pd open PATCH.1.pd ../SomeFolder (

construction to hard-code some patches but i don't know how to make it dynamic... I want in my masterpatch a numberbox in which i can enter a number and a bang to open the corresponding patch.

Thx for all kind helpers,

d.

did you try:

[numberbox]
/
[bang( /
| /
[f ]
|
[;
pd open PATCH.$1.pd ../SomeFolder (

(will only work with versions of pd newer than 0.40 or whenever it was that introduced the new $n message handling.)

thx matt. i didn't know that i could use arguments in ; messages.

@mod said:

did you try:

(will only work with versions of pd newer than 0.40 or whenever it was that introduced the new $n message handling.)

how did one get arguments into messages prior to that, out of interest?

I know that before that version the $ arguments had to be preceded by a whitespace, so that made things much more difficult. You probably had to perform some magic with makefilename and lists.

And indeed it works !

@domien said:

[;
pd open PATCH.1.pd ../SomeFolder (

Sorry.
Why the command doesn't work? Should I use capital letters for the patch name?

no, you should use the patch name exactly as it is named on your hard disk. but instead of "../SomeFolder" you should put the path to the folder where your patch is.

i see.
i put the patch on my desktop and use
[;
pd open test.pd /User/yinyi/Desktop(

doesn't work.
the control window doesn't show the error message. : (

When you do that, pd will look for a folder called User in the folder where you opened the main patch. You can use ../ to descend the folder structure.

try this:

[;
pd open /User/yinyi/Desktop/test.pd(

@sunji said:

try this:

[;
pd open /User/yinyi/Desktop/test.pd(

: (

hi sunji, I don't know if you have test it. It doesn't work too.

"error: Bad arguments for message 'open' to object 'pd'
... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu."

I use 0.41.4 extended on osx 10.4.11

ope, you are right. That's what flippant responses get me!

did you get domien's to work yet?

maybe it doesn't work with some versions of pd?. i made some patches in pd extended which depended on this function, but they are not working on a different computer running a new version of pd vanilla.

these messages are not documented by miller, and are just hacks that have been discovered by clever pd users. they are very much 'use at your own risk', and this might be an example where the compatibility has been broken. or we might all be making the same error. i'm not sure.