"embed patcher in parent" checked on in the bpatcher inspector ?

Old news now, I know, but I am constantly plagued by variations on this problem — especially when duplicating bpatchers — but I can never get anything failing consistently enough to post here. It comes and goes in mysterious ways. I deal with it by putting my arguments in before I choose the patch to load, so if the args field locks, it won’t matter. Ugly, I know…

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really annoying, yes.
my workaround is to do a [script sendbox bpatchername args arguments] to a [thispatcher] object located in the bpatchers parent. haven’t found a better solution as the bug is completely random.

• This reply was modified 2 years by  benniy.

This issue is still not resolved in Max 6.19 and is really annoying. It makes very difficult to do sets of voices using a model.
Another solution is to copy the bpatchers with the initial args into a text editor, change manually the args and copy back the text into the patch.

{
"box" : {
"maxclass" : "bpatcher",
"name" : "Voice.maxpat",
"args" : [ 12 ],
"numinlets" : 0,
"patching_rect" : [ 34.0, 198.0, 94.0, 236.0 ],
"id" : "obj-4",
"numoutlets" : 0
}