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Making two text fields persistent

gpvillamil — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:59:14 +0000

I have a patch with two user-editable text fields. I want them to be saved when the patch is closed, and loaded when the patch is opened.

I’ve come up with the following, but it seems rather complex. I can’t help thinking that there is a far simpler way to do it.

I can’t use pattrstorage, because I’m already using that to save other things in the patch, and trying to set up two pattrstorage objects in the same patch seems way to hard.

So here’s what I have – is there a better way?

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Re: Making two text fields persistent

pgk — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:07:23 +0000

Hi there!

A way to do it without pattrstorage could be to use preset
like this:

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Hope this helps!

Re: Making two text fields persistent

gpvillamil — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:12:10 +0000

I’d considered preset, but the patch has to run under the runtime, so the data has to be saved in an external file.