@ingox thanks.

is there any way to do this?
i have looked at iemguts (using canvas position) hcs (windowname) to try to create some kind of abstraction like this

[is_top_window]
|
[X]

and when it is not

[is_top_window]
|
[0]

is there any way to detect which window is located on top?

@Jona @cuinjune hey thanks. i wonder if it might make sense at this point to keep everything in one place. (in terms of learning materials.)

was wondering if people would be willing to post resources links etc.

@cuinjune ok thanks.

i recently installed ofelia on a rpi.
i can destroy contents of the window using a message to [of.Window]
but the actual render space is still visible. how do i close that without quitting Pd.?

@otterly

if you right click or cntrl click on a toggle
and select Properties
you can click the button that says "No init" under Parameters
so it changes to Init
when you save the patch it should store its state. (*this also works for sliders radio buttons and the Number2 number atom Shift+Ctrl+N.)

you can also look in the Help Browser at 5.reference/savestate-help.pd

of course if you want to make sure it opens the same way every time regardless i would just use
[loadbang]
|
[1( or [0(

as far as more general state saving techniques there are many methods to do this.

you might want to check these out
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/10589/saturation-abstraction

there is also one called fx.fuzz~ in here:
https://github.com/megrimm/pd-fresh

https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/5222/better-sounding-guitar-distortion-beyond-clip-and-tanh

@seb-harmonik.ar hey thanks so much for this.
that is what i was trying to do.

@seb-harmonik.ar

the patch I posted specifically?

yeah

had been trying to adapt it

so far i have resized the arrays
but still having trouble reading back the samples correctly to avoid clicks and getting the feedback section to work.