Yep, you need a "message", not an "object".
cheers Miller
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:38:16PM -0400, Joseph Zitt wrote:
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 02:30, sme wrote:
hi, the dynamically sending is done with a message beginning with a semicolon (;). a semicolon changes the destination of a message to the symbol following the semicolon: [;fred 999( would send the number 999 to the (receive-)object fred. the semicolons clears the "current destination" (usually the outlet of the message objct) and redirects messages to the object "fred". the destination must be a symbol, ... with [pack s 0] you can go innto a message [;$1 $2( and the $1 will be replaced with the destination-symbol and the $2 with a float (or what you will want to send).
Hmmm.... when I try to create an object "; $1 $2" (also trying it with $1-r and $1r, with and without the space after the semicolon, and with and without explicitly putting that "(" after the "$2"), I get a "couldn't create" message in the console window. Am I misunderstanding something about the notation?
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