I'm working on a small patch and in a nutshell, my problem is that I can't understand why I am unable to have a [tabread4~] read from a table with a $0 argument in another subpatch.

That is, I can find what the $0 value is in the subpatch it is created in. Then I can feed that value to the [tabread4~] using [set $1-table( to ask it to read from that table. I figured it would work but it doesn't.

Am I just fundamentally misunderstanding something about subpatching? The example I included uses two [tabread4~] objects that use a [switch~] to turn each one on or off internally so they both are never on at the same time. It's a closer analogue to what I'm actually trying to do.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/$0-arg.pd

seems to work fine here. You have to hit the toggle first to initialise the [switch~] states, but after that it works like i think it should.

Do you have a few of these set up at once?

in that case, is going to be global...that might be what is messing you up?

change it to and it will only act within your abstraction.

Ya, I had a loadbang to set the [switch~] correctly on my other patch as well as the . My apologies for not including it here.

I'll try again and see if I can get something. I really can't imagine why it doesn't want to work. Perhaps a Pd reinstall is in order?