1. Is there an easy way to find out the id of the last object created in a patch?
2. Can I stop subpatches from opening on creation? If so, how do you do that?

Best,
Gilberto

newsub.pd

Thanks for your responses. Actually, Liam's suggestion is exactly what I need. It's a pretty good solution. Still need the id of objects so that I can connect them after the fact.

Thanks in advance,

Ricky

Here's a tedious way of finding the ID number: open the pd file in a text editor and count the number of objects prior to the one you're looking for. Ie, if you see:

 #X obj 30 369 phasor~;
 #X obj 30 308 random 100;
 #X obj 30 280 metro 30;

then metro is the third object. Remember to start from the very top of the list. If you have trouble finding the right object, then you could add a unique creation argument to it in the GUI, even if it temporarily breaks the object (ie, rename it [metro foo] and then search for "foo" in the text editor).

Another technique is to ensure that any new object you create is in a special subpatch. Inside the subpatch, ID numbering is restarted, so you can be sure that the first object you create is 1, etc.

And, once it's there, I can right click onto it and select "View page source". A little window opens and, when I click onto any line (of the Pure data text), the status bar indicates line and column, for example: Line 6 Col 2.

It's an useful way of counting. But text editors have this counting functionality too. So I don't know how useful this is, but there it is.

Is there a broadcast message for removing an object from a patch?

I'm non-dynamic. However, I'm pretty sure you can benefit from...

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Read the file 3.2.cut_paste.pd

Have a nice day!

get_object_id.pd

Here's an example where I do this:

abstractions.pd
abstractions-help.pd

...I see you're at Tufts (I know Paul) :o)

1. Is there an easy way to find out the id of the last object created in a patch?

You can use [iemguts/canvasindex] - its right outlet outputs total number of objects in the patch (so subtract 1 to get last object's index, because indices are zero-based).