http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:07:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/#post-47099 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/#post-47099 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:23:14 +0000 benb7760 Is there a way to make a buffer~ object only accessible from the patcher its in and its children?
so if i had a patcher loaded into a p object, and it contained a buffer, the parent cannot access the buffer but the patcher it was created in can

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/#post-169317 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/#post-169317 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:52:51 +0000 Emmanuel Jourdan Use the magic #0 in the buffer name (like buffer~ #0_toto). A unique random number will be generated (like 1074_toto) in place of the pound 0.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/#post-169318 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/#post-169318 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:48:14 +0000 benb7760 thank you for this advice. I am now facing a problem with this. I am making an MSP java that needs to access a buffer in the patcher that has been named this way. Is this achievable?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/#post-169319 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/making-a-buffer-unique-to-a-patcher/#post-169319 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:50:14 +0000 EMV Let the patcher output the unique name by connecting [loadbang]-[message #0_toto]-[outlet].
That way something outside the patcher receives the name and can access the buffer.

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