OpenMusic DocumentationHiérarchie de section : OM 6.6 User Manual > Visual Programming I > Boxes > Abstraction BoxesAbstraction Boxes (Intro)
Concept
Abstraction is a procedure that permits to abstract a program, that is, a process, a patch, into a box that can then be used into another program. In other words, an abstraction box represents a patch in another patch and acts as a function.
Abstraction is detailed in of the Advanced Programming section.
Abstraction Boxes
The main type of abstraction box is the Patch pox
There exist two type of patch boxes :
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OMLoops are particular abstractions that allow to design iterative processes. |  |
Maquettes are special programming editors with a temporal dimension. Like patch boxes, they can be eitheir global or internal. |  |
Lisp functions are abstractions defined textually in Lisp. Like patch boxes, they can be eitheir global (blue) or internal abstractions (red). |  |
- Functional Abstraction
A functional abstraction is a program whose some elements can become variables, via connections to the outside environment. Hence, this program must have inputs or outputs that can be connected to external variable elements. The resulting functional abstraction can then be embedded into other programs to be used as a functional component.
