You are just missing a colon. You want something like, 'priority A::A_number $1' and 'priority A::B::B_number $1'.

One thing, setting the priority of 'A' or 'B,' which are patchers, doesn't really make any sense, at least to me.

-Ben

...ok! :) Thanks for pointing out my typo mistake.

Patchers' priorities make sense to me. I think that if A got a lower priorities than B, its items will be restored first, even if all the items in A and B got the same priorities. At least I expect it. gonna give it a try.

thanks Charles

One can set the topmost patcher's priority, but subsequent patchers within the hierarchy will always be restored top down. From the ref:

"Priority is only respected within a single level of the patcher hierarchy. Data in parent patchers will always be restored before data in nested patchers."

-Ben

Yes, sorry, the A and B of my example patch were not a good example for that. In my last post I was thinking of A and B as two patches at the same level. Charles