Stefan Tiedje

I tried to send a message to the parent patcher with inx. My attempt 

was, to directly communicate with the thispatcher object of the parent 

but it doesn't work. Is my synthax wrong, or isn't it possible at all? 

I'd like to talk to the thispatcher of a parent without the need of 

actually instantiating a thispatcher object and giving it a name.

The concrete issue is a defocusing. Thus if there would be a way to 

defocus with a scripting command, this would make me happy as well. 

Though the possibility to talk to a parent patcher directly is on my 

I tried to send a message to the parent patcher with inx. My attempt 
was, to directly communicate with the thispatcher object of the parent 
without needing it.

but it doesn't work. Is my synthax wrong, or isn't it possible at all? 
I'd like to talk to the thispatcher of a parent without the need of 
actually instantiating a thispatcher object and giving it a name.

The concrete issue is a defocusing. Thus if there would be a way to 
defocus with a scripting command, this would make me happy as well. 
Though the possibility to talk to a parent patcher directly is on my 
wishlist for a long time.

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pattrforward-and-parent-patcher

Sorry, there's currently no way to do this from the toplevel patcher 

(your patch works in a subpatch, although the name has to be 

The pattrforward object speaks to boxes, and your parent patcher, in 

this case, has none. Because I was so mean to you yesterday, though, 

I've added this feature for the next release of the object. The name of 

the pattrforward object's containing patcher will be "this". And "this" 

Until then, you'll need to talk to the patcher through a thispatcher 

Sorry, there's currently no way to do this from the toplevel patcher 
(your patch works in a subpatch, although the name has to be 
parent::somebox).

The pattrforward object speaks to boxes, and your parent patcher, in 
this case, has none. Because I was so mean to you yesterday, though, 
I've added this feature for the next release of the object. The name of 
the pattrforward object's containing patcher will be "this". And "this" 
will work at any patcher level.

Until then, you'll need to talk to the patcher through a thispatcher 
object or use JavaScript to do this.

> Because I was so mean to you yesterday, though,

> I've added this feature for the next release of the object. The name of 

> the pattrforward object's containing patcher will be "this". And "this" 

Wow, nobody can beat you with the speed of implementing useful stuff 

(even more useful than asked for), thanks a lot.

I can wait (...for the incremental) update...

Jeremy Bernstein wrote:
> Because I was so mean to you yesterday, though, 

> I've added this feature for the next release of the object. The name of 
> the pattrforward object's containing patcher will be "this". And "this" 
> will work at any patcher level.

Wow, nobody can beat you with the speed of implementing useful stuff 
(even more useful than asked for), thanks a lot.
I can wait (...for the incremental) update...

pattrforward and parent patcher