Getting the name of a subpatch from inside it?

yeah, I was hoping to avoid js, though, because I might want to
create large numbers of subpatches and a compile C external would be
better suited, me thinks.

Thanks for the handy script, anyway! I'll use it for now.

Funny, but now I finally understand why you want a "pattrbackward",
Stefan. I never understood what it would be useful for until now.

Here's my feature reuest: it would be nice if thispatcher could
output the scripting name of a patcher it was inside. I'm actually
surprised that it can't - it can do everything else. (Unless I am
missing something)

Cheers
Evan

On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Emmanuel Jourdan wrote:

> On 4 janv. 08, at 07:37, Stefan Tiedje wrote:
>
>> outlets = 2;
>> setoutletassist(0,"my scripting name (list)");
>> setoutletassist(1,"my rect (list)");
>>
>> function bang()
>> {
>> if(this.patcher.box){
>> outlet(0, this.patcher.box.varname);
>> outlet(1, this.patcher.box.rect);
>> }
>> }
>
>
> If I may, I would suggest swapping the 2 outlets calls, so it
> outputs from the right to the left, like what you generally expect
> in a standard Max object.
>
> function bang()
> {
> if(this.patcher.box){
> outlet(1, this.patcher.box.rect);    // output first to the
> right outlet
> outlet(0, this.patcher.box.varname);    // then to the left
> }
> }
>
> Cheers,
> ej
>
>