hi,
right, you can either escape it ($), or simply write a hash (#) in the properties dialog, but then you cannot save instantiated abstractions, because the gui objects have their own saving functions which know of the instantiated parameters and not of the template form of parameters (unless you save the template).
If you do save an instantiated abstraction -- and 1) it should be allowed; 2) it is very easy to make such a mistake accidentally (by pressing Ctrl-s instead of Ctrl-w or Ctrl-e or even wanting to save the parent patch while abstraction window is active) -- then all your parameters are gone.
Krzysztof
marius schebella wrote: ...
i tried to use dollarsigns in the GUI-Objects and after some trying i found maybe a possible handling: if you type "$1" instead of "$1" the properties-dialog takes it and next time fills it with the arguments given.