I don’t mind using older externals, but just trying to future proof my patches. I am not expecting ext13 to be updated to run on natively an M1 processor.

I just need to be able to change the send~ name. I will check the ELSE options, thanks, all though it is the sender that doesn’t offer option to change name. 

For adding it to Vanilla version, Miller gave an answer, which indicated there is not an easy way to do it, without adding a block of delay. But nice to see that an issue has been raised, mentioning it. Hopefully that can be helpful :) 

Best wishes,
Jakob

On 17 Jan 2023, at 19.56, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> wrote:



Em ter., 17 de jan. de 2023 às 12:28, Jakob Skouborg <syntaxerror60@hotmail.com> escreveu:
So was just wondering if there is a specific reason why not all of them offers the option to change name with a symbol?

Yes, and what exactly do you need?
  
I have been using the externals ext13, but they haven’t been updated in a decade.

seems you need [receive] to take a receive name and you're using [receive13] instead. If you don't like a decade old dead external, you can use [else/receiver], which is pretty much alive.
 
Is there a chance that this will be updated in the future?

If you search on github, you'll see a request to add an inlet to vanilla's [receive] here https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/603 and a fix was proposed here https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/604


and there are two currently active PRs that needed to be merged before to clear out the way, they are https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1759 and https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1760
 
So, hopefully, these can be considered soon and merged and we'll see if Vanilla can also support this, so I can also get rid of else/receiver :) 

cheers