Hi Marc, i cc the posts to the pd-devel list... you should better ask your questions there so that others can contribute and listen.
Yes, this works. (The 15 warning are just MS noise, I assume.) But I do not understand what gensym actually does. The J.M. Zmoelnig document (http://iem.kug.ac.at/pd/externals-HOWTO/HOWTO-externals-en.html) does not say much about this particular issue. Maybe you know?
gensym registeres a symbol (given by a string) in the PD messages table or fetches it from it if it's already stored. A few often used important symbols also have static equivalents as you have seen: s_float for gensym("float"), s_signal for gensym("signal") etc.
Would you recommend flext even for those people who make externals for PD only (and not for MAX). What advantages would one have?
I use it for any external but i'm biased of course. Advantages: - more compact - use C++ features (like inheritance) - a lot of convencience functions - threading Disadvantages: - small processing and memory overhead - size of externals (this will improve shortly)
There are more points to consider, please read on in http://www.parasitaere-kapazitaeten.net/~thomas/ext/flext/flext-intro.pdf http://www.parasitaere-kapazitaeten.net/~thomas/ext/flext/flext-LAD2.pdf
I am attempting to get the first example of the flext tutorial (simple
- to compile properly on win2k VC++ 6.0.
I am receiving this error:
LNK1104: cannot open file "flext_d-pdwin.lib"
Did you build the flext library beforehand? If yes, it should reside in the flext/pd-msvc folder somewhere. You'll use have to adjust the path somewhere in the project settings of the tutorial examples, so that the library can be found.
- If you're using build-pd-msvc.bat, you should edit config-pd-msvc.txt accordingly - If you are using the VC++ project, you'll have to adjust the include and library paths.
best greetings, Thomas