Re: Turn abstractions into subpatches

"Peter P." <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:38:31 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
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* IOhannes m zmölnig via Pd-list <[email protected]> [2026-04-12 17:16]:
> On 12/04/2026 17:07, Peter P. wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > wasn't there a gui plugin one day that was able to turn abstractions
> > into subpatches automatically?
> 
> not that i know of.
> there's the "patcherize-plugin" (available on deken), that allows you to
> turn the selected objects into an abstraction of a sub-patch, but not the
> other way around.
Thanks! What's "an abstraction of a subpatch"? 
 
> apart from that: if you do not use dollargs, then converting an abstraction
> to a subpatch should be straightforward: copy the entire contents of the
> abstraction into a new subpatch. (use paste-replace to replace the
> abstraction [object] with its subpatch counterpart).
Understood. I am interested in turning a large number of abstractions
with $-arguments into subpatches, with the arguments replacing the
respective values, but understand that there is currently no solution
and it seems to come up rarely.
For reference there is
https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ODVX6HYGMCF4DOQQR3DW75QOLDOIWEII/

best, P

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