Hi, Im new to this forum.. I'm using PD extended 0.42.5 extended. Creating visuals for live performances with ableton live + logic.

Everytime I try to save a patch, the message and number boxes get reset to zero. Which means I spend 3 hours working on the settings, sincing it with ableton act act the when I try to save all the data from the message and numbers boxes are lost.

So I end up opening an almost empty patch and have to start again with all the numbers settings .

THis is very annoying and really stunts my workflow.

anyone knows how to save all of the data from the message/number boxes? please let me know. Thanking you in advance.

SafeAZ.

Peace.

I use these really nice abstractions:
http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-5664-state-saving-abstractions

or [tof/param]

Thanks for your help. I'm not sure I understand though, in order to save a patch you need a separate state saving patch? then you must run that patch every time you want to open your patch?

you need to put these [save.me.mmb] [my.hero.mmb] objects into you patch as shown in the help file.

thanks dude

Pritty annoying and time consuming to to hook every number value up to [save.me.mmb]

can't I just click "save" and it saves everything??

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You don't necessarily need to save every value in a patch, just the control parameters. So hitting "save" in some situations may keep values that could cause problems with reloading. Also, my state-saving abstractions are meant to be more flexible than that, anyway. For one, it allows you to keep multiple save states for one patch. It can also be easier than using [loadbang] to initialize parameters.

Another option is to open the properties for gui objects and click the "no init" button so that it says "init". Then, when you save the patch, it will save the state of the gui object.

Ok thanks I got that but one thing I really need is to have the [pix_image] file open every time I open the patch.

At the moment I have to reload the image into my GEM window everytime I open the patch, (and re-arrange the spatial design of my geos) annoying.

Put the file name (with the path if it isn't in the same folder as the patch) in a message box and [loadbang] it. If there are spaces in the path, you'll need to first send it through something like [list2symbol] first to make sure it isn't misinterpreted as a list.