List of supported Options

• Patch Options
• Node Options
  • Common Options
  • Atom Options
  • UI Options
  • Bang Options
  • Toggle Options
  • Slider Options
  • Radio Options
  • Canvas Options

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Patch Options

These options are supported as the second argument to write-patch, write-patch-reload and patch.

window properties	default
:x	0	window position, horizontal
:y	0	window position, vertical
:width	450	window width
:height	300	window height
:graph-on-parent	false
:hide-object-name	false
:view-width	85	width of visible graph area
:view-height	60	height of visible graph area
:view-margin-x	0
:view-margin-y	0
:x-range-min	0
:x-range-max	100
:y-range-min	1
:y-range-max	-1

Example

(write-patch "example.pd"
  {:width 800 :height 600} ; <-- put options here
  [:print [:msg "hello world"]])

Node Options

These options are supported as the second item in hiccup syntax:

Common Options

option	default	comment
:x	0	horizontal node position
:y	0	vertical node position

Supported in: all nodes

Atom Options

option	default	comment
:send-symbol	"-"
:receive-symbol	"-"
:label-text	"-"
:label-pos	0	0 is left, 1 is right, 2 is top, 3 is bottom
:width	5	node width
:lower-limit	0
:upper-limit	0

Supported in: floatatom, symbolatom

UI Options

option	default	comment
:send-symbol	"empty"
:receive-symbol	"empty"
:label-text	"empty"
:label-x	17
:label-y	7
:font-family	0
:font-size	10
:bg-color	-262144
:fg-color	-1
:label-color	-1
:size	15

Supported in: bng, tgl, hsl, vsl, hradio, vradio

Bang Options

option	default	comment
:hold	250
:interrupt	50
:init	0

Supported in: bng

Toggle Options

option	default	comment
:init	0	is node value initialized when patch is loaded
:init-value	0	if 0, node is initialized to 0. else, node is initialized to :nonzero-value.
:nonzero-value	1	value emitted when toggle is on

Supported in: tgl

Slider Options

option	default	comment
:width	15
:height	15
:bottom	0	minimum value
:top	127	maximum value
:log	0
:init	0	is node value initialized when patch is loaded
:default	0	saved slider position, in 1/100th of pixels.
:steady-on-click	1

Supported in: hsl, vsl

Radio Options

option	default	comment
:init	0	does node send value on load?
:init-value	0	initial value
:cells	8	number of cells

Supported in: hradio, vradio

Canvas Options

option	default	comment
:width	100
:height	60
:label-x	20
:label-y	12
:font-size	14
:bg-color	-233017
:fg-color	-66577

Supported in: cnv