There's a longstanding bug: when you edit an abstraction, Pd then "recreates" all copies of that abstraction, which has the side effect of dirtying all parent patches. I think it's on my very long list of bugs to deal with... :)
cheers Miller On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 07:51:32PM -0800, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: > Is that a bug or a feature? > I use a set of patches with many iterations and child abstractions. > > Editing a deeply embedded abstraction, then saving that abstraction > and closing the very top parent patch always results in a huge stream > of "Discard changes to this window?" dialogues that eventually crash > Pd (of course, that is most definitely a bug : ) ). > > It doesn't make much sense to me that the dirty flag is set on the > parent - nothing changes in the parent's file when a child abstraction > is edited (though sure, its appearance might change if the child > abstraction was GOP). > > It's even more confusing when I've been working on many patches and am > unsure if I actually edited the parent, or whether it's just this > behavior. > > Can anyone give a reason why this happens, or should I file a bug report? > > Cheers > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
